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Fraud or Find? What We Know About Crete's Mysterious Phaistos Disk » Explorersweb

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In early July of 1908, Luigi Pernier was heading an archaeological mission to Crete. One evening, the Italian was writing a letter to his superiors when he was interrupted by the arrival of Zacharias Eliakis, who supervised the dig that afternoon. Eliakis had a strange object with him. It was a clay disk, the size of a dinner plate, and still covered in dirt. Pernier examined the object. There appeared to be writing in an unknown language, carve…
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explorersweb.com broke the news in on Monday, November 24, 2025.
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