13.02.2018

A new approach to interpreting the Phaistos Disc was revealed by Dr. Gareth Owens at an event held by the National Documentation Centre and TEI Crete, on Wednesday 7 February 2018 at the National Hellenic Research Foundation. Speaking in fluent Greek, the Welsh linguist stressed that, based on his many years of research, the one side of the Disc refers to the pregnant goddess that "shines" and the other side refers to the goddess that "sets", probably the Minoan goddess Aphaia


Dr. Gareth Owens, an expert on the minoan scripts who has dedicated more than ten years to studying the Phaistos Disc with John Coleman, Professor of Phonetics, Oxford University, has succeeded in ‘reading’ 99% of the Disc and has interpreted more than 50% of it. Based on the conclusions of the research which were revealed that the Phaistos Disc, the most well-known Minoan syllabic inscription of the Bronze Age, dated to the 17th century BC, 500 years before the Trojan War, is a prayer to the pregnant goddess and the goddess Aphaia.

READ MORE     http://www.ekt.gr/en/news/21517