Phaistos where an imposing palace once stood is, perhaps not as well known as Knossos, but a focal point of the history of ...

What it is: A fired clay disk inscribed with symbols that have never been deciphered ... observatory What it tells us about the past: The Phaistos Disk was discovered in 1908 by an Italian ...

Highlights include a mini-statue of a Snake Goddess and the Phaistos Disk, a clay tablet with symbols that have not been deciphered to this day. All artifacts (spanning some 5,000 years of history ...