GREECE ~ Phaistos Disc - Crete ~

... View of the famous Phaistos Disc discovered at the palace of Phaistos.. it remains one of archaeology’s greatest mysteries... many have attempted to decipher the enigmatic code of the 241 hieroglyphic symbols comprising 45 signs... neither its origin nor the meaning of the inscription could yet be determined... the language imprinted on the face of the mysterious disk has never been fully decoded, and its symbols are part of no known alphabet either ancient or modern... it is on display in the Archaeological museum of Heraklion, one of the most important museums in Greece, housing unique findings from the Minoan civilization... one of the earliest and most advanced civilizations in Europe.... Thanks Dustin!【ツ】  

This double-sided clay disc, roughly 15cm in diameter and characterized by the the spiral pattern of of the symbols imprinted on its surface, was discovered by Italian archeologist Luigi Pernier during an excavation of Phaistos in 1908 and dates possibly from the middle or late Minoan Bronze Age.

While the disc is named for the place in which it was discovered, the absence of similar artifacts in the region suggests that the site is not the disc’s actual place of origin.

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Tourism - Knossos 

(22-07-2019)