About the book: 2005 / Created more than 4,000 years ago, the Phaistos Disc still hides many secrets. This unique archaeological artifact of the lost Minoan civilization, discovered on the island of Crete at the beginning of the 20th century, is one of the greatest mysteries in human history. Over the years since its discovery, many researchers have tried to decipher the pictograms on it, but to date, none of the hundreds of interpretations have received universal recognition. Alan Butler offers his own scientifically based version of deciphering the contents of the Phaistos Disc. In his opinion, this monument of ancient culture is indisputable evidence that the people of the Bronze Age had a thoughtful and very advanced system of measures, in comparison with which the modern metric system looks simply primitive. Perhaps it is the key to the mystery of the lost ancient technologies that allowed our ancestors to build stunning megalithic structures. It is possible that the Phaistos Disc is an argument in favor of the fact that the origins of all our scientific knowledge go back to some long-vanished civilization. This book, like many other works of a talented English historian specializing in the study of ancient artifacts, reads like a fascinating detective story in which The object of the investigation is the Minoans and the mysterious Phaistos Disc they created..