Did you know that... Three different alphabets have been found up to now at the Minoan Archeological sites.

Three different alphabets have been found up to now at the Minoan Archeological sites.

It is the hieroglyphic alphabet of the Phaistos Disc . in Linear A scripts have been found, as well as scripts in Linear B alphabet. The latter was deciphered was deciphered after the Second World War, but Linear A still remains an unknown language.

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Hieroglyphic alphabet

A green jasper seal with Cretan hieroglyphs. 1800 BC

Linear A

Linear B

Clay tablet (PY Ub 1318) inscribed with Linear B script, from the Mycenaean palace of Pylos. This piece contains information on the distribution of bovine, pig and deer hides to shoe and saddle-makers. Linear B was the earliest Greek writing, dating from 1450 BC, an adaptation of the earlier Minoan Linear A script. The script is made up of 90 syllabic signs, ideograms and numbers. This and other tablets were fortuitously preserved when they were baked in the fire that destroyed the palace around 1200 BC. It is on display at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens.