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A century of puzzling

Nature volume 453, pages 990–991 (2008)Cite this article

Believed to be the world's first printed document, the Phaistos Disc was unearthed 100 years ago. Andrew Robinson explains why this remarkable object remains undeciphered.

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  1. Andrew Robinson is a visiting fellow of Wolfson College Cambridge, Barton Road, Cambridge CB3 9BB, UK. He is author of The Story of Writing, The Man Who Deciphered Linear B and Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts.,

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