Mary Gindling is a life-long student with a wide set of interests including history, earth sciences, religious studies, and anthropology. In addition, she designs and creates jewelry as well as cross-stitch, knitting and crochet patterns. She is currently working on a book of jewelry designs and researching a non-fiction book.

My passion is ...

learning

I know too much about ...

nothing at all - there's always something to learn.

My parents always told me ...

If you're going to do it, do it right

My childhood ambition ...

to be a writer

Why I write ...

I can't imagine not writing

My first job ...

Working on a library bookmobile

My best moment ...

I hope I haven't had it yet

Arts & Humanities > History Mysteries The mystery of the Phaistos Disc

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The Phaistos Disc is one of the greatest archaeological enigmas ever discovered. It was found in 1908 in the ruins of the Minoan palace of Phaistos on the southern coast of Crete. The room it was discovered in has been described as a "temple depository," a basement cell that had been deliberately covered over with a layer of white plaster. Nearby was another tablet written in Linear A, one of the two known written languages of the Minoan culture. There was little else in the room except for a few burned animal bones amid a thick layer of black earth and ash material.

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