Phaistos
Americannoun
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The Phaistos Disc from Crete - a mysterious, fired clay disc from the Minoan civilisation - "closely mirrors the Indus script's challenges - its language is unknown, and only one known example exists".
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2025
For historians of technology, the Phaistos disk is even more baffling; its estimated date of 1700 B.C. makes it by far the earliest printed document in the world.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
In addition to all those technological drawbacks, the Phaistos disk was printed at a time when knowledge of writing was confined to a few palace or temple scribes.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
As a result, the Phaistos disk’s printing technology was much clumsier, and offered fewer advantages over writing by hand, than Gutenberg’s printing press.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
In all six respects, the maker of the Phaistos disk had access to much less powerful technologies to combine into a printing system than did Gutenberg.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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