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A fired-clay disk from the Second Millennium B.C. may finally have had some of its markings decoded. 

The mysterious "Phaistos disk," found in 1908 in a palace called Phaistos on the island of Crete, contains symbols on both sides, in a spiral configuration meant to be read from the outside toward the center. It is estimated to date from about 1,700 B.C.
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The Phaistos Disc (also spelled Phaistos Disk, Phaestos Disc) is a disk of fired clay from the Minoan palace of Phaistos on the Greek island of Crete, possibly dating to the middle or late Minoan Bronze Age (2nd millennium BC).
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The other word to consider is that starting A-QE- which is found ten times out of the sixty-one words on the Phaistos Disk. This root is indeed why the Phaistos Disk was written, or rather printed, and is the key that will one day unlock its meaning. The root A-QE- may be connected to AKKA which is found in many Indo-European languages meaning mother and may well be connected with AGAPO in Greek. If so, this would be a reference to the Great Mother Goddess of Crete, ASASARAME, Astarte, Demeter etc. and would explain the rhyming Phaistos Disk as a hymn to the Great Mother Goddess, which would also be the most likely interpretation due to its Minoan context and in accordance with what we know about Minoan religion.
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