The Phaistos Disk (1850-1600 BC) was found in 1908 on the island of Crete. This clay disk is a sample of the Crete-Minoan civilization; for the history of culture it is unique because it is thought to be the first printed document in the world. Clay tablets with the inscriptions of the so-called “Linear A” and “Cretan” hieroglyphs dated back to the first half of the 2nd millennium BC on Crete.
Authoritative European scientists think that the language of these documents, their ethnos and culture created the first European civilization in the Mediterranean basin in the Early Bronze age. The famous Crete-Minoan Palaces–fine samples of art, wonderful frescoes and ceramics were also created there.
This clay disc, almost six inches in diameter, is covered both sides with a spiral of stamped symbols.
As a result, individuals have made numerous attempts to decipher the Phaistos Disc throughout the past decades.
Understanding this disk may solve the issue of the identity of the people who inhabited Europe as early as we can possibly trace our roots. Moreover, linking the language of the Phaistos Disk to one or another presently existing language, or the parent language thereof, will naturally link the people who speak such a language to the earliest inhabitants of the Europe, the first Europeans, so to speak.
In 2008, Giorgi Kvashilava, a famous Georgian scholar and researcher, decoded the disk and proved that the Phaistos Disk text was inscribed in the Colchis (Western Georgian) language. The text of the Phaistos Disk proved to be a connected text of a religious hymn (a prayer) to the Great Goddess of Rhea-Cybele (or Nana).