Phaistos where an imposing palace once stood is, perhaps not as well known as Knossos, but a focal point of the history of ...

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 ...

Deciphering writing on artifacts is not an easy pursuit. Oftentimes, writings are created using scripts or implying contexts that are not understood in modern times. In 2014, a team of researchers ...

Is the Phaistos Disc a clever fake The film follows the trail of possibly one of the greatest archaeological scandals ever The search for the truth starts in the ancient Cretan palace complexes of ...

Highlights include a mini-statue of a Snake Goddess and the Phaistos Disk, a clay tablet with symbols that have not been deciphered to this day. All artifacts (spanning some 5,000 years of history ...