Story by Tom Metcalfe • 1mo 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 ...

The Phaistos Disc is decorated on both sides with a spiral of stamped symbols Credit: Alamy In total, the clay slab is covered with hundreds of "picture" segments created from 45 individual ...

2. The Hard Disk Of Phaistos Wikipedia 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 ...