Ancient code gives up its secretsFOR more than a century, scientists have been puzzling over this mysterious 4000-year-old inscribed disk discovered on Crete. Now it’s been decoded. Well, three words have. While we know what the remaining words may have sounded like, we don’t know what they mean. The 16cm wide Phaistos Disk’s unusual spiral cuneiform (picture) writing is both beautiful and enigmatic. Linguistic researcher Dr Gare
