Re: Phaistos disk forgery?

From: Andrew West (andrewcwest@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Jun 27 2008 - 04:02:23 CDT

  • Next message: Michael Everson: "Re: Welsh orthography in Unicode"

    2008/6/27 John Hudson <john@tiro.ca>:
    > The upcoming issue of the archaeology journal Minerva will apparently
    > contain an essay charging that the Phaistos Disk, whose signs were recently
    > encoded in Plane 1, is a modern forgery. Should be interesting.

    It certainly won't be the first time that someone has claimed that the
    disc is a modern forgery ... nor the last time no doubt. But it is an
    opinion that does not represent scholarly consensus.

    Andrew



    This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Fri Jun 27 2008 - 04:06:19 CDT