Deciphering History

Andrew Robinson looks at some linguistic puzzles still facing historians.

Andrew Robinson | Published in History Today Volume 52 Issue 8 August 2002
English: The Phaistos Disk (side A) found in the Phaistos archaeological site on July 3, 1908, exhibited in the Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete, Greece
The Phaistos Disc (side A) dated to c.1700 BC, exhibited in the Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete, Greece. Image: Wiki Commons/Olaf Tausch.

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