So, I didn’t make any of this up: the Phaistos Disc is a real thing, and it truly has never been deciphered. If you search this up, you’re going to come back to this page up in arms about how I’m wrong. Yes, every few months some new article pops up claiming “PHAISTOS DISC FINALLY DECODED!!!” or something sensationalist of that ilk. This is pretty much always untrue. The actual content of the articles will usually talk about how some researcher has decoded a certain number of phrases, or figured out it’s probably the inscription of a prayer, or something quite specific like that. We still have no idea what language it’s written in, and there has never been another specimen of this language uncovered.

Knowing generally what it’s about is not the same thing as decoding it fully – unlike the Rosetta Stone, we have no canonical text that compares it to other languages. So we can’t translate it yet, or know that much about it. Isn’t that really cool?

“Aliens” is also a popular Phaistos Disc theory. Make of that what you will.