The Phaistos Disc

The Phaistos Disc
Title The Phaistos Disc PDF eBook
Author Leon Pomerance
Publisher
Pages 88
Release 1976
Genre Social Science
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The Phaistos Disk

The Phaistos Disk
Title The Phaistos Disk PDF eBook
Author Thomas Balistier
Publisher Verlag Dr Thomas Balister
Pages 111
Release 2000
Genre History
ISBN 9783980616805

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Since it was discovered in 1908, the Phaistos Disk - one of the most important artifacts from Crete's minoan culture - has challenged scholars of diverse diciplines and captivated interests of amateurs. Its allure is primarily due to the fact that no one has been able to really solve its mystery. None of the numerous decipherments has found general acceptance or scientific approval. This book does not offer yet another attempt at deciphering the Disk. Rather, it is a short presentation of the various research efforts on the dating and origin, writing and language, as well as content and purpose of the Disk. This lively account of the most important aspects of a not-so-strictly-scholarly debate, which has gone on for decades, also includes a view of the putative solutions.

The Phaistos Disc

The Phaistos Disc
Title The Phaistos Disc PDF eBook
Author Winfried Achterberg
Publisher
Pages 166
Release 2004
Genre Bronze age
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The Board Game on the Phaistos Disk

The Board Game on the Phaistos Disk
Title The Board Game on the Phaistos Disk PDF eBook
Author H. Peter Aleff
Publisher
Pages 382
Release 2002-11
Genre Games & Activities
ISBN 097246462X

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Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens

Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens
Title Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens PDF eBook
Author Robin Waterfield
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 542
Release 2018
Genre History
ISBN 0198727887

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A fascinating, accessible, and up-to-date history of the Ancient Greeks. Covering the Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic periods, and centred around the disunity of the Greeks, their underlying cultural unity, and their eventual political unification.

The Greatest Invention

The Greatest Invention
Title The Greatest Invention PDF eBook
Author Silvia Ferrara
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages 227
Release 2022-03-01
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 0374601631

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In this exhilarating celebration of human ingenuity and perseverance—published all around the world—a trailblazing Italian scholar sifts through our cultural and social behavior in search of the origins of our greatest invention: writing. The L where a tabletop meets the legs, the T between double doors, the D of an armchair’s oval backrest—all around us is an alphabet in things. But how did these shapes make it onto the page, never mind form complex structures such as this sentence? In The Greatest Invention, Silvia Ferrara takes a profound look at how—and how many times—human beings have managed to produce the miracle of written language, traveling back and forth in time and all across the globe to Mesopotamia, Crete, China, Egypt, Central America, Easter Island, and beyond. With Ferrara as our guide, we examine the enigmas of undeciphered scripts, including famous cases like the Phaistos Disk and the Voynich Manuscript; we touch the knotted, colored strings of the Inca quipu; we study the turtle shells and ox scapulae that bear the earliest Chinese inscriptions; we watch in awe as Sequoyah single-handedly invents a script for the Cherokee language; and we venture to the cutting edge of decipherment, in which high-powered laser scanners bring tears to an engineer’s eye. A code-cracking tour around the globe, The Greatest Invention chronicles a previously uncharted journey, one filled with past flashes of brilliance, present-day scientific research, and a faint, fleeting glimpse of writing’s future.

Stones that Speak

Stones that Speak
Title Stones that Speak PDF eBook
Author Robert D. Morritt
Publisher Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Pages 420
Release 2010-04-16
Genre History
ISBN 1443821764

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As a child I would often wonder when I saw an illustration of a stone tablet, and ask myself: What did the inscription mean? How did these people sound when they talked? What would that piece of clay say if it could speak! The enigma of the Phaistos Disc is revisited here in the light of new findings. From the various interpretations of the origin of the symbols depicted on the disc. Kober, Ventris, Chadwick and Bennett, the cryptologists are remembered for paving the way for us to understand the language and culture of early societies. Archaeological excavations, archaic languages and Myths are explored, together with theories of archaic Cretan relations as far away as the Black Sea. If this book enthuses just one person to forge ahead to uncover new information to allow “The Stones to Speak,” then I will be satisfied.