Name: Phaistos Disk. What it is: A fired clay disk inscribed with symbols that have never been deciphered. Where it is from: The ancient Minoan civilization on the Mediterranean island of Crete.

Believed to date from 1700 BC the “Phaistos Disk” has been described by one of the researchers studying it as first Minoan "CD-ROM" for its shape and hard-coded data. It was found in Phaistos ...

The Phaistos disk from circa 1700 B.C. The signs were not engraved using a stylus but rather pressed onto the wet clay using molds or seals in a kind of ancient typesetting.

FOR more than a century, scientists have been puzzling over this mysterious 4000-year-old inscribed disk discovered on Crete. Now it’s been decoded. Well, three words have.

What makes the Phaistos Disk particularly mind-bending is its method of creation. Each of its 241 symbols was carefully pressed into the soft clay using individual stamps.

A LANGUAGE expert claims to have decoded an ancient Greek relic that has baffled researchers for over a century. The Phaistos Disc has a diameter about as long as your hand and is decorated on both… ...

Sounds of an ancient world recovered from enigmatic Minoan Phaistos Disk. IT’S one of history’s greatest mysteries: A 4000-year-old clay disc covered in spirals of enigmatic writing.

Phaistos Disk: 3,000-year-old inscriptions from Crete that have never been deciphered. News. By Tom Metcalfe published 14 October 2024 None of the many interpretations of the Phaistos Disk's ...

A LANGUAGE expert claims to have decoded an ancient Greek relic that has baffled researchers for over a century. The Phaistos Disc has a diameter about as long as your hand and is decorated on both… ...