The Phaistos Disk is about 6 inches (15 cm) in diameter and covered on both sides with a spiral of stamped symbols.

Perhaps the inspiration for Atlantis, Minoan civilization born on the island of Crete spread throughout the Mediterranean before it mysteriously collapsed. Many myths and legends of Crete center ...

In 1908, an archaeologist in Crete discovered a small clay disk bearing unknown symbols. Now known as the Phaistos disk, it remains a modern enigma. The Phaistos disk from circa 1700 B.C. The ...

A fired clay disk inscribed with symbols that have never been deciphered Where it is from: The ancient Minoan civilization on ...

It's now one of the highlights of the British Museum's Minoan collection. The bull and the leaper are both made of bronze, and together they're about six inches (or 150mm) long and four or five ...

The most concrete evidence for contact between the Minoan world and Egypt are objects found in Egypt and in Greece. There are many Minoan vessels and sherds found in Egypt, though far below the scale ...

A few years later in 1866, the first traces of an ancient Minoan settlement had been accidentally revealed, during the works to get volcanic soil from Santorini in order to insulate the Suez Canal ...

British authorities and naval intelligence sources have reported two incidents that are likely to be the first attacks by the ...

A Greek bulker hit by a Houthi missile off Yemen last week has managed to move away from the danger zone by its own means and ...