Prayer for mother on a 4,000 year disc

The mysterious symbols on the Greek plate dating back to the 40th century were finally decoded , when scientists thought it was a prayer for the mother, written in ancient figurative language.

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This mysterious disc named Phaistos was found in 1908 in the Phaistos palace on Crete, Greece. The clay dish made from clay dates from 1700 BC, and it is written in strange spiral symbols, meaning to read from outside the center, News Discovery said.

Ancient plate with mysterious symbols.(Photo: Wikimedia commons / PRA)

For more than a century, scientists have tried to decipher the meaning behind symbols, and now Dr. Gareth Owens from Crete Institute of Technology Education says he has found some key words and information. The message the disk wants to transmit.

On the face of the disc was 241 hieroglyphs, made up of 45 different symbols, Owens said that this 15 cm diameter disc contained a prayer to the supreme god of Minoan civilization.

"The most sure and valuable word is from mother, specifically the Minoan goddess," Owens told Archeology News Network.

By looking at specific symbol groups, Owens believes that a symbol string on the disk can be read as "a great and very important woman". On the disk there is also a keyword that can be read as "pregnant mother" . One side of the plate is about a pregnant woman and the other is about a woman during childbirth.

Owens spent six years studying these codes with a colleague at Oxford University, and confirmed that 90% of the symbols on a disk surface were decoded. Dr. Owens calls this ancient disc " Minoa's first CD-Rom" because of its shape and complex cryptographic data engraved on it.