Knossos palace in Crete. Credit: Cayambe / Wikimedia Commons The ivory object, provisionally identified as a scepter or ritual staff, features an engraved inscription in the Linear A script on all its ...

This ancient script has remained unsolved for over a century In 1908, an archaeologist in Crete discovered a small clay disk bearing unknown symbols. Now known as the Phaistos disk, it remains a ...

The Minoan Civilization of Crete, often hailed as Europe’s first literate society, left behind a strange writing system that continues to mystify modern scholars, remaining an unsolved enigma to ...

Given the power and prominence of King Minos in the legendary history of Crete, it was easy to assume that this ...

The recent decipherment of the Minoan Linear A script has made it possible to translate the 797-line inscription carved on a marble slab that has been in the possession of my family for almost ...

Through extensively cross-referencing later hieroglyphics such as the Minoan Linear A and Mycenean Linear B, the scientists have now been able to build a phonetic translation of the script. Only ...

The script developed out of a Minoan Linear A script that was used by the palatial civilization that flourished on the island of Crete from 1850 to 1450 B.C.