Phaistos

Phaistos is a Bronze Age archaeological site in south-central Crete, Greece, with the remains of a Minoan palace and the town around it, one of the largest cities of Minoan Crete. First settled about 3600 BCE, it had a palace from about 2000 BCE, which was destroyed and rebuilt three times before its final destruction in the 15th century BCE. Federico Halbherr and Luigi Pernier excavated it from 1900, and in 1908 the Phaistos Disc was found in a basement room of the palace.