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.

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 ...

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.

The Phaistos Disc disc was discovered by the Italian archaeologist Luigi Pernier in 1908 Credit: Getty. The Bronze Age artefact, which dates back to the second millennium BC, ...

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 ...

Phaistos Disk is a clay plate-like objected dating by as far as 2000 BC. The symbols covering the disk have mystified researchers since it was discovered in 1908.

For more than 100 years, archaeologists have been baffled by the markings on the clay "Phaistos disk," which dates to roughly 1,700 B.C.E. Now, researchers have figured out what some of the disk's ...

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 Phaistos Disc disc was discovered by the Italian archaeologist Luigi Pernier in 1908 Credit: Getty. The Bronze Age artefact, which dates back to the second millennium BC, ...