Posted on 10/29/2014 3:28:53 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
4000-Year-Old Phaistos Disk Decoded
October 28, 2014
Scientists have been trying to decipher the mysterious “Phaistos Disk” markings ever since the clay disk from the Second Millenium B.C. was first discovered in 1908 on the Greek island of Crete. And it seems like they’ve finally cracked the code.
At 4,000 years old, the relic dates back to the Minoan civilization and features an inscription that boasts a mysterious language, with symbols on both sides in a spiral configuration, which can be read inward from the outside rim.
Researchers have been studying the puzzling artifact since its discovery, and now Dr. Gareth Owens, of the Technological Educational Institute of Crete, says he has solved the century-old enigma. Or at least part of it.
(Excerpt) Read more at clapway.com ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HM0zNadG2Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq8sFN_WoQ8
sidebar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E72_fv1SYZs
He’s interviewed here, says he used the work of his hero Michael Ventris, who found Greek in Linear B, to help crack the Phaistos script, which he then claims is very like Linear A, the presumed script of the Minoans.
BTW, Linear A cannot be read either. :’)
Whoops! And thanks TigerLikesRooster!
sort of an update:
Archaeologist Claims to Have Unlocked Phaistos Disk Mystery
By Philip Chrysopoulos
Dec 16, 2015
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2015/12/16/archaeologist-claims-to-have-unlocked-phaistos-disk-mystery/
If you look at the way the walking figures are arranged I’ve sometimes thought it related to walking down of a ceremonial spiral mound not unlike Silbury Hill (which dates from nearly 5000 years ago) in conjunction with also walking around an associated path around the mound.
If that were the case then maybe there’s another disk somewhere for walking up?
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