What it is: A fired clay disk inscribed with symbols that have never been deciphered ... until the beast was killed by the Athenian hero Theseus. But experts think the Minoans lived on Crete ...

Fourteen young Athenians are being selected for the journey to Crete. Theseus - son of King Aegeus - is determined to be one of them. Theseus persuades his father to allow him to go to Crete ...