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Ancient Greek ‘Phaistos Disc’ Finally Decoded, May Refer to Goddess of Love

Greek City Times 28 Jul 2021
... to be one “lost when the Minoans were wiped out in 1450 BC under mysterious circumstances.”. Owens and his team “compared what little we know about the two Minoan languages, known as Linear A and Linear B, with other languages to come to their conclusions,” The Sun reported.
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Invasion, Not Santorini Eruption Tsunami Seen Destroying Minoan Civilization

The National Herald 16 Nov 2019
... settlements on Crete – and was originally connected to the Thera disaster, said the paper, adding that translations of an unusual script on a set of tablets – the language of Linear B, a form of ancient Greek – on Minoan-era tablets helped overturn the end-by-tsunami theory.
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NEWS BRIEFS for Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Record Delta 25 Jun 2019
However, Bolen then sent the tablet to the Epigraphic Society, whose members decipher old writing, and from there it was sent to Barry Fell, “a Harvard marine biologist turned amateur archaeologist.” Fell reportedly claimed the markings were a Cypriot script using a ...
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