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Pyrgi Gold Tablets: A Rare Ancient Bilingual Treasure

AncientPages.com | November 23, 2018

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Dating back to 500 B.C., the Pyrgi gold tablets were discovered in 1964 in an excavation of a sanctuary in ancient Pyrgi, the

The disk was found by Luigi Pernier, the Italian archaeologist excavating ruins of the ancient Minoan Palace of Phaistos, on Crete in 1908. It's important to add that the enigmatic artifact was spotted in a stratum belonging to the sixteenth century BC, but it may be of much earlier.

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Is The Mystery Of Controversial Phaistos Disk Solved?

AncientPages.com | December 17, 2015

AncientPages.com - Many have laid claim to having solved the mystery of the enigmatic round terracotta tablet - Phaistos Disk. The disk was found by Luigi Pernier, the Italian