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Phaistos
Phaistos, also Phaestos and Phaestus, was an ancient city on the island of Crete.
Phaistos was located in the south-central portion of the island, about 3 1/2 miles from the sea. It was inhabited from about 4000 BC. A palace, dating from the Middle Bronze Age, was destroyed by an earthquake during the Late Bronze Age. Knossos and other sites were also destroyed at that time. The palace was later rebuilt toward the end of the Late Bronze Age.
The area upon which Phaistos stood was the site where, in 1908, a curious clay disk, dating to about 1700 BC, and containing a sophisticated pictographic writing, was discovered. This Phaistos Disc has yet to be deciphered.
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Linear B and Related Scripts (Reading the Past) by John Chadwick
Glyphbreaker by Steven Roger Fischer
The Bronze Age Computer Disc by Alan Butler
Crete: Knossos - Phaistos - Malia (Colour Guides: Greece) by Cadogan Guides
The Board Game on the Phaistos Disk: Its siblings Senet and Snake Game, and its surviving sequel the Royal Game of the Goose by Recovered Science Press
The Phaistos disc : an interpretation of astronomical symbols by Leon Pomerance
The Phaistos Disc Alias the Minoan Calendar by Ole Hagen
Religion: Die Einheimische Religion Japans -Teil - Bis Zum Ende Der Heian - Zeit (Handbuch Der Orientalistik, Funfte Abteilung, Vol 4, Section 1, Pt 1) by Nelly Naumann
W.W.Greece Disc of Phaistos by Kean
Phaistos (Archaeological Receipts Fund, Athens) by Old Vicarage Publications
Phaistos by William Ball
The Language of the Sea Peoples (Publications of the Henri Frankfort Foundation, Vol 12) by Fred Woudhuizen
Hunting in the Indus script & the hieroglyphic tablets of Phaistos by John Newberry
Deshyfruvannia Fests§koho dyska by IU. L. Mosenkis
Die Inschrift des Diskus von Phaistos by Benon Zbigniew Sza±ek
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