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Nature 453, 990-991 (19 June 2008) | doi:10.1038/453990a; Published online 18 June 2008
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A century of puzzling
Andrew Robinson1
- Andrew Robinson is a visiting fellow of Wolfson College Cambridge, Barton Road, Cambridge CB3 9BB, UK. He is author of The Story of Writing, The Man Who Deciphered Linear B and Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts.
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Believed to be the world's first printed document, the Phaistos Disc was unearthed 100 years ago. Andrew Robinson explains why this remarkable object remains undeciphered.
The Rosetta Stone is the most famous of ancient inscriptions; it unlocked the meaning of thousands of Egyptian hieroglyphic inscriptions. The undeciphered Phaistos Disc, discovered by an Italian archaeologist at Phaistos near the coast of southern Crete a century ago next month, is perhaps the most infamous.
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