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\*Includes pictures \*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading \*Includes a table of contents \*Includes pictures Nearly 2,000 years before Homer wrote his epic poems, the Minoan civilization was centered on the island of Crete, a location that required the Minoans to be a regional sea power. And indeed they were, stretching across the Aegean Sea from about 2700-1500 BCE, with trade routes extending all the way to Egypt. The Minoans may have been the first link in the “European chain”, leading to the Ancient Greeks and beyond, but questions persist over the origins of the civilization, the end of the civilization, and substantial parts of their history, including their religion and buildings. All of this is largely because their written language, known today as “Linear A,” remains undeciphered, and among the more enigmatic finds of this truly enigmatic culture was a small disk-shaped object excavated among the ruins of the Minoan city of Phaistos in 1908. The disc, which has since become known simply as the “Phaistos Disc,” contains a number of pictographic symbols that were unrecognized by the scholars who first laid eyes on the object and remain unknown in

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Author

Charles River Editors

Publisher

Springer Berlin

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780792362982

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Philosophy, History

Rating

4.16 / 5 (213 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13