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Is Decipherment of the Phaistos disc Possible?
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The Phaistos Disc is now-a-days a very well-known archeological artifact that was found by the Italian scientist L. Pernier in 1908 during his excavations in Crete in the ruins of the Minoan palace in the vicinity of the town of Phaistos. It is commonly believed that the Phaistos Disc contains a natural language text written with the use of some kind of a syllabic script. But in closer analysis it becomes clear that the Phaistos disc contains many statistical anomalies. The aim of the paper is to attempt to answer the question whether it is possible that some compound geometrical patterns and other statistical anomalies could appear at random during the process of writing. The findings strongly suggest that the geometrical patterns and other statistical anomalies on the Phaistos Disc were made intentionally and for this reason it is highly possible that this object does not contain any natural language text and all trials of its decipherment are made in vain, because they have no sense at all.
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