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Mystery Code of The 4,000-Year-Old Phaistos Disk, The Necrobiome, and 7 Beliefs of Emotionally Healthy People

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

Science

4.6963 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2018

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Learn about the mysterious 4,000-year-old Phaistos disk; how the necrobiome is helping forensic scientists; and the 7 beliefs of emotionally healthy people.

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0:00.0

Hi, we've got three stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes.

0:05.6

I'm Cody Gough.

0:06.6

And I'm Ashley Hamer.

0:07.6

Today you learn about a 4,000-year-old mystery code, how the Necrobiome is helping forensic scientists, and the seven beliefs of

0:15.3

emotionally healthy people. Let's satisfy some curiosity on the award-winning

0:19.4

Curiosity Daily. We've solved a lot of ancient mysteries, but one piece of work has been

0:24.4

stumping archaeologists and historians for a long time. It's called The Disc of

0:29.3

Fastos. It's a mysterious work of unknown origin, purpose, and meaning, and it was written about 4,000 years ago.

0:37.0

Ready to bust out your decoder ring?

0:39.0

I love this. I mean, we already figured out the Rosetta Stone.

0:42.0

Now, this is a new mystery to solve.

0:44.0

It's almost as mysterious as the Da Vinci Code.

0:46.5

Ooh.

0:47.5

Before the Greeks there were the Minoans.

0:51.1

They were incorrectly named after the legendary King Minos by

0:54.8

19th century archaeologists and they ruled the island of Crete for about 600 years

0:59.7

from around 2000 to 1400 BC.

1:02.6

Now the Minoans were the first known civilization to create art depicting natural scenes

1:07.7

without human figures, and their palace building prowess was way ahead of its time. Are the aliens? I'll leave that up to you to decide.

1:15.4

In 1908 an expedition found a disc and the Minoan Palace of Feistos.

1:20.3

It's a single circular piece that's just over six inches in diameter and it's adorned on both sides with a spiral of symbols. Yes, a spiral. There are 241 total symbols made up of 45 distinct figures.

1:35.6

Here's where it gets out of control.

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