Decrypting the enigmatic Phaistos Disk

[Still Waters]

The decoding of the Phaistos Disk has puzzled specialists for over a century, however new findings describe the disk as "the first Minoan CD-ROM" featuring a prayer to a mother. Gareth Owens, Erasmus coordinator at the Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Crete, speaking at the TEI of Western Macedonia on Monday, said the disk is dedicated to a "mother".

http://archaeologyne...ml#.VEq3g2eg4dU

[Q-C]

It's beautiful.

[+DieChecker]

Sounds like they are getting close to solving this mysterious object.

It looks very much like something a kid might make, with a spiral, and imprints from some kind of tokens, or stamps.

It seems there have been lots of claims of deciphering the disk.

http://en.wikipedia....pherment_claims

EDIT: A related object...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkalochori_Axe

Edited October 25, 2014 by DieChecker

[Eldorado]

It's beautiful.

Check out this image. Click on it for full size.

http://www.ancient.eu/image/364/

[bubblykiss]

I am sticking to my theory that the Phaistos Disk is a cookie mold that we have assigned too much meaning to by virtue of its great age.

[Silver Surfer]

[alfonso]

it just looks like a large biscuit to me ...

[Bendy Demon]

I am sticking to my theory that the Phaistos Disk is a cookie mold that we have assigned too much meaning to by virtue of its great age.

While it is pretty neat looking I have to agree that perhaps we are attaching way too much signifigance to this piece of clay.

For all we know it could just be a childs toy or something a potter used.

it just looks like a large biscuit to me ...

Geeze, thanks a lot. Now I'm hungry again.

[Hanslune]

It may have been a game or gift made by a child for a parent or grandparent. It may have been inspired by an Egyptian Mehen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehen_%28game%29

[gameseta]

the disc was made for the blind.

[woopypooky]

they cant even draw a circle properly. Inexcusable for a human.

[Starhunter]

I like Hanslune's answer.

Edited October 26, 2014 by Starhunter

[Eldorado]

they cant even draw a circle properly. Inexcusable for a human.

So is not checking the sentence you have just typed for punctuation errors a 5yr-old wouldn't make.

[Himalayan Mystic]

It could be coin.

[Duchess Gummybuns]

An ancient CD? Maybe it has Windows 1000(BC).

[Hanslune]

An ancient CD? Maybe it has Windows 1000(BC).

Nah it's the original disk containing Lotus 123

[Bouzanis K.]

PHAESTOS DISC [the reading]

http://bouzanis.blog...istos-disc.html

Edited October 26, 2014 by Bouzanis K.

[docyabut2]

It must have been of importance to be in a palace of Crete , maybe a tribute to the Phoenician princesses that was abducted and married by the Greek God Zeus.

http://www.phoenicia.org/europa.html

Edited October 26, 2014 by docyabut2

[highdesert50]

Interesting how the spiral and embedded symbols convey both information and a sense of time or movement. This seeming multidimensional characteristic provides layers of information that could greatly enhance the story-telling, providing "emotion" that the symbols may not so effectively convey.

[CJ1983]

"pregnancy and birth" ha it's ancient erotica.

[Karasu]

Watch it turn out to actually say, "Let's screw with people in the future".

[:PsYKoTiC:BeHAvIoR:]

So is not checking the sentence you have just typed for punctuation errors a 5yr-old wouldn't make.

[Aisling]

Hmm...so with references to pregnancy and birth...is there possibly ones of death? I mean, it does has a spiral on it, and in some ancient cultures a spiral was a symbol of rebirth, of reincarnation. Maybe that's what this is? A record of reincarnations?

[kobolds]

are they serius ? it take them 6 years to translated few symbols .

[kmt_sesh]

Here's a decent article on why Owens's "translation" of the artifact is unlikely:

Phaistos Disk Deciphered? Not Likely, Say Scholars

Owens is a legitimate historian but just another in a long line who've "successfully translated" the disk down through the years. There are valid and well-understood reasons that the disk, at least at present, cannot be deciphered at all.