The Rosetta Stone is the most famous of ancient inscriptions; it unlocked the meaning of thousands of Egyptian hieroglyphic inscriptions. The undeciphered Phais-tos Disc, discovered by an Italian archaeologist at Phaistos near the coast of southern Crete a century ago next month, is perhaps the most infamous.rnLuigi Pernier found the disc on 3 July 1908 in a basement cell of a ruined Minoan palace dating from the first half of the second millennium bc. No other samples of the script have turned up since. Pernier published his find in 1909 without trying to decipher it. The same year, archaeologist Arthur Evans, discoverer of ancient Knossos in the islands north, included fine photographs and good drawings of the disc in an appendix to his pioneering volume of Minoan inscriptions, Scripta Minoa. Tantalized scholars in many countries began to speculate as to its meaning. Evans's subsequent lengthy discussion of the disc in volume one of his celebrated The Palace of Mines at Knossos, published in 1921, threw down the gauntlet to would-be decipherers everywhere.
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机译：罗塞塔石碑是最著名的古代铭文。它解开了成千上万埃及象形文字铭文的含义。路易吉·佩尼尔（Luigi Pernier）于1908年7月3日在米诺斯宫殿废墟的地下室发现了这张未破译的Phais-tos唱片，该唱片可能是最臭名昭著的。可追溯到公元前第二个千年的上半年。此后，没有其他脚本示例出现过。佩尔尼尔（Pernier）于1909年发表了他的发现，而没有试图对其进行解密。同年，考古学家亚瑟·埃文斯（Arthur Evans）是北部岛屿上古老的克诺索斯的发现者，在其开创性的米诺斯碑文Scripta Minoa的附录中，附有精美的照片和精美的光盘插图。许多国家的受过诱惑的学者开始猜测其含义。埃文斯（Evans）随后在1921年出版的他著名的克诺索斯矿业宫（The Palace of Mines）中对该碟片进行了冗长的讨论，该碟片对所有可能成为解密者的人造成了打击。
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