In this translation, the team was able to identify ... "I suspect that the Phaistos Disc is a hymn before Astarte, the goddess of love," he added. Researchers believe that the two sides of the ...

In 1908, an archaeologist in Crete discovered a small clay disk bearing unknown symbols. Now known as the Phaistos disk, it remains a modern enigma. The Phaistos disk from circa 1700 B.C. The ...

It was found in Phaistos on the Greek island of ... So far, the information on the disk has resisted total translation, but the parts that have been decoded seem to refer to a "Mother" or "Goddess ...

The Phaistos Disk was discovered in 1908 by an Italian archaeologist on Crete. Initially, some scholars thought it was a forgery, but it is now generally accepted as authentic — although some ...

The 16cm wide Phaistos Disk’s unusual spiral cuneiform (picture ... the scientists have now been able to build a phonetic translation of the script. Only three words are recognisable.

The Phaistos Disc has a diameter about as long as your hand and is decorated on both sides with a spiral of stamped symbols. In total, the clay slab is covered with hundreds of "picture" segments ...

While excavating the ancient Minoan palace of Phaistos in Crete, Pernier came across a peculiar artifact: a clay disk roughly the size of a dinner plate, covered on both sides with a spiral of ...

But experts think the Minoans lived on Crete between about 3100 and 1150 B.C. — probably centuries before Minos and Theseus might have lived in the 12th century B.C. The disk was found in the ...

The Phaistos Disc has a diameter about as long as your hand and is decorated on both sides with a spiral of stamped symbols. In total, the clay slab is covered with hundreds of "picture" segments ...

The 16cm wide Phaistos Disk’s unusual spiral cuneiform (picture ... the scientists have now been able to build a phonetic translation of the script. Only three words are recognisable.