Story by Tom Metcalfe • 6mo 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 ...

More than a century ago, one of the most controversial archaeological discoveries in history took place. During an excavation at the Minoan palace of Phaistos in ancient Crete, Italian Luigi Pernier ...

The Phaistos Disc is an archeological object that some have considered the oldest example of moveable type in history. The characters on the clay disc were stamped from a set of “seals” creating a ...

A huge scientific breakthrough thousands of years in the making is imminent this summer, with experts claiming that they will soon be able to decode the Phaistos Disc, having decrypted almost 90 ...

Excavations by Italian archaeologists Federico Halbherr and Luigi Pernier began in 1900, the latter of whom discovered the Phaistos disc. The disc is one of the most intriguing archaeological ...

London, July 12 : An American scholar has declared the Greek Phaistos Disc, which is believed to be 4,000 years old, to be a fake. According to a report in the Times, some people have said that ...