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Symbols of the Phaistos Disk. The Phaistos disk. Photograph by PjrTravel/Alamy. The Minoan kingdom flourished on the Greek island of Crete between 3000 B.C. and 1100 B.C.

The Phaistos Disc from Crete - a mysterious, fired clay disc from the Minoan civilisation - "closely mirrors the Indus script's challenges - its language is unknown, and only one known example ...

In 1908, the disc was discovered inside the Minoan Palace of Phaistos in Crete, Greece. On it are various pictograms featuring images of everything from people and plants to a bell and a cat's head.

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 Disk. The Phaistos Disk is a fired clay tablet inscribed with a ring of unknown symbols believed to originate from the ancient Minoan civilisation on the island of Crete.

Phaistos Disk Credits: Roger Davies / CC BY 2.0. Of the most notable objects of the Minoan civilization is the Phaistos disk. It is a clay disk about six inches (15 centimeters) in diameter, with ...

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 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.

People have suggested all these explanations for the mysterious Phaistos Disc. Archaeologist Luigi Pernier discovered the six-inch clay disc in 1908 in a Minoan palace on the island of Crete.