It is a disk of clay that was discovered in 1908 by the Italian Archaeologist Luigi Pernier in the Minion palace site of Phaistos in the Greek island of Crete.





The disc was found in the main cell of an underground temple .





It is dated to be from 2nd millennium BC.



The disc which is of 15 Cm diameter contains various symbols and inscriptions on both side. Phaistos disc(side A)



The inscriptions are written in a code that is still undecipherable.



Many attempts were made to decipher the code , but were unsuccessful.

It has 241 tokens and 45 unique signs.



The disk is accepted as authentic by archaeologists , but few have raised the possibility that it is a hoax created in 1908.



Archaeologists trying to decipher it have proposed that it may be a geometric theorem , a board game,adventure story ,etc



Archaeological enthusiasts still believe that the mystery can be solved but scholars point out that a conclusion is not possible unless more examples of the signs turns up somewhere.



Phaistos disk is one of the unsolved mysteries of the world.