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	<title>Cipher Mysteries &#187; Phaistos Disc</title>
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		<title>The Ultimate Christmas Game&#8230; the Phaistos Disk?</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/12/25/the-ultimate-christmas-game-the-phaistos-disk</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/12/25/the-ultimate-christmas-game-the-phaistos-disk#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 19:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Phaistos Disc]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent Cipher Mysteries post, I mentioned Peter Aleff&#8217;s theory that the Phaistos Disk was based on Senet, an Ancient Egyptian board game. All very fascinating&#8230; but something about it all triggered an old memory, one I couldn&#8217;t quite put my finger on. However, when yesterday I did finally manage to find what I [...]]]></description>
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In a recent Cipher Mysteries post, I mentioned Peter Aleff&#8217;s theory that the Phaistos Disk was based on Senet, an Ancient Egyptian board game. All very fascinating&#8230; but something about it all triggered an old memory, one I couldn&#8217;t quite put my finger on. However, when yesterday I did finally manage to find what I [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Phaistos disk update&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/12/16/phaistos-disk-update</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/12/16/phaistos-disk-update#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Phaistos Disc]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just to break up the monotony of far too many Unknown Man posts in a row , here&#8217;s Anthony Svoronos&#8217; great long list of Phaistos Disk speculative theories and wobbly decipherment attempts, together with his own notes on what he suspects it is. Peter Aleff [#47 on Svoronos' list] recently left a comment [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Just to break up the monotony of far too many Unknown Man posts in a row   , here&#8217;s Anthony Svoronos&#8217; great long list of Phaistos Disk speculative theories and wobbly decipherment attempts, together with his own notes on what he suspects it is. Peter Aleff [#47 on Svoronos' list] recently left a comment [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Review: Gavin Menzies&#8217; &#8220;The Lost Empire of Atlantis&#8221;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/12/04/review-gavin-menzies-the-lost-empire-of-atlantis</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/12/04/review-gavin-menzies-the-lost-empire-of-atlantis#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 09:50:36 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Phaistos Disc]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ex-submariner Gavin Menzies attracted global attention with his eye-catching farragos &#8220;1421&#8243; and &#8220;1434&#8243;, books laying out how he imagined 15th century Chinese fleets sailed through a dried-up Egyptian canal to reach Renaissance Europe and beyond. And now he&#8217;s moved onwards and backwards to the Minoans, an ancient Mediterranean civilization he proposes were in fact the [...]]]></description>
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Ex-submariner Gavin Menzies attracted global attention with his eye-catching farragos &#8220;1421&#8243; and &#8220;1434&#8243;, books laying out how he imagined 15th century Chinese fleets sailed through a dried-up Egyptian canal to reach Renaissance Europe and beyond. And now he&#8217;s moved onwards and backwards to the Minoans, an ancient Mediterranean civilization he proposes were in fact the [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>First photograph by Durer of a Da Vinci drawing? Riiiiight&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/11/27/first-photograph-by-durer-of-a-da-vinci-drawing-riiiiight</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/11/27/first-photograph-by-durer-of-a-da-vinci-drawing-riiiiight#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2010 21:14:19 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Leonardo da Vinci]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Phaistos Disc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sacred Geometry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You may have heard the curious story from May 2008 about how Sotheby&#8217;s withdrew a picture from auction that was suspected of having been optically captured by Thomas Wedgwood in the 1790s, some 30 years before the first &#8216;official&#8217; photo was taken. Photography historian Dr Larry J. Schaaf speculated that this was so &#8221;based on the letter [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[You may have heard the curious story from May 2008 about how Sotheby&#8217;s withdrew a picture from auction that was suspected of having been optically captured by Thomas Wedgwood in the 1790s, some 30 years before the first &#8216;official&#8217; photo was taken. Photography historian Dr Larry J. Schaaf speculated that this was so &#8221;based on the letter [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Updated Cipher Mysteries home page&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/08/25/updated-cipher-mysteries-home-page</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/08/25/updated-cipher-mysteries-home-page#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beale Ciphers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Codex Seraphinianus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[D'Agapeyeff Cipher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dorabella Cipher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Phaistos Disc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rohonc Codex]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick note to say that I&#8217;ve been working behind the scenes for a few weeks on a revised Cipher Mysteries home page, incorporating a nice clickable list of what I think are the top unsolved cipher mysteries of all time, some of which you may not have heard of:- (&#8211;Top secret, yet to be announced&#8211;) The Voynich [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Just a quick note to say that I&#8217;ve been working behind the scenes for a few weeks on a revised Cipher Mysteries home page, incorporating a nice clickable list of what I think are the top unsolved cipher mysteries of all time, some of which you may not have heard of:-

(&#8211;Top secret, yet to be announced&#8211;)
The Voynich Manuscript
The Anthon [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Review of &#8220;Cracking Codes &amp; Cryptograms for Dummies&#8221;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/04/23/review-of-cracking-codes-cryptograms-for-dummies</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/04/23/review-of-cracking-codes-cryptograms-for-dummies#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 08:24:37 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[David Kahn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dorabella Cipher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elonka Dunin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Phaistos Disc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ciphermysteries.com/?p=2968</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With my book publisher hat on, I&#8217;d guess that the pitch for this book probably said: &#8220;Codes! Ciphers! Cryptograms! Masonic stuff! For Dummies!&#8221; And yes, the authors (Denise Sutherland and Mark E. Koltko-Rivera) pretty much seem to have delivered on that basic promise. But&#8230; is it any good? Bear with me while I sketch out a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[With my book publisher hat on, I&#8217;d guess that the pitch for this book probably said: &#8220;Codes! Ciphers! Cryptograms! Masonic stuff! For Dummies!&#8221; And yes, the authors (Denise Sutherland and Mark E. Koltko-Rivera) pretty much seem to have delivered on that basic promise. But&#8230; is it any good?
Bear with me while I sketch out a triangle [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Review: Michael Jacobson&#8217;s asemic books&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/04/20/review-michael-jacobsons-asemic-books</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/04/20/review-michael-jacobsons-asemic-books#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:42:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ciphers in Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Codex Seraphinianus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Phaistos Disc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ciphermysteries.com/?p=2771</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A few days back, two small book-shaped things arrived in the post: and I&#8217;ve been pondering what to say about them ever since. In fact, I&#8217;ve been struggling to work out what I think about them&#8230; you&#8217;ll see what I mean in a moment. You might superficially compare them with, for example, Luigi Serafini&#8217;s famously [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A few days back, two small book-shaped things arrived in the post: and I&#8217;ve been pondering what to say about them ever since. In fact, I&#8217;ve been struggling to work out what I think about them&#8230; you&#8217;ll see what I mean in a moment.
You might superficially compare them with, for example, Luigi Serafini&#8217;s famously unreadable [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Review of David Gibbins&#8217; &#8220;Atlantis&#8221;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/03/12/review-of-david-gibbins-atlantis</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/03/12/review-of-david-gibbins-atlantis#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cipher Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Phaistos Disc]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This being Cipher Mysteries, I try to read a fair bit of mysterious cipher-related stuff along the way, both non-fiction and fiction. Yet just as you&#8217;d expect, most cipher mystery fiction tends more to the &#8216;airport novel&#8217; end of the spectrum than the &#8216;lit-rit-cher&#8217; end. Which pleasantly brings to mind (well, to my mind, at least) [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[This being Cipher Mysteries, I try to read a fair bit of mysterious cipher-related stuff along the way, both non-fiction and fiction. Yet just as you&#8217;d expect, most cipher mystery fiction tends more to the &#8216;airport novel&#8217; end of the spectrum than the &#8216;lit-rit-cher&#8217; end. Which pleasantly brings to mind (well, to my mind, at least) [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>&#8220;That&#8217;s Life, Samara Brooks&#8221;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/01/12/thats-life-samara-brooks</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/01/12/thats-life-samara-brooks#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:42:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Big Fat List]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cipher Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Phaistos Disc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andromeda Klein]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ciphermysteries.com/?p=2626</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s something a bit unexpected: a teen novel built around school rivalries, DNA testing, the Voynich Manuscript and the Phaistos Disc. Due to come out in February 2010, could &#8220;That&#8217;s Life, Samara Brooks&#8221; be the first properly crossover Voynich-themed book to add to the Cipher Mysteries Big Fat List? I&#8217;ll be sure to get a copy [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s something a bit unexpected: a teen novel built around school rivalries, DNA testing, the Voynich Manuscript and the Phaistos Disc. Due to come out in February 2010, could &#8220;That&#8217;s Life, Samara Brooks&#8221; be the first properly crossover Voynich-themed book to add to the Cipher Mysteries Big Fat List? I&#8217;ll be sure to get a copy [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>&#8220;Decoding the lost symbols&#8221; mini-conference&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/10/31/decoding-the-lost-symbols-mini-conference</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/10/31/decoding-the-lost-symbols-mini-conference#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 09:57:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Phaistos Disc]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rosicrucianism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Treasure Maps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Next Sunday (8th November 2009), $99 should get you into a one-day mini-conference in LA focusing on &#8220;hidden history, signs, symbols, and secrets&#8221;, hosted by Simon Cox, author of the brand new book &#8220;Decoding The Lost Symbol&#8221;&#8230; OK, I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve rumbled the secret already: that it&#8217;s basically a one-day press launch for Simon Cox&#8217;s book, with a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Next Sunday (8th November 2009), $99 should get you into a one-day mini-conference in LA focusing on &#8220;hidden history, signs, symbols, and secrets&#8221;, hosted by Simon Cox, author of the brand new book &#8220;Decoding The Lost Symbol&#8221;&#8230;
OK, I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve rumbled the secret already: that it&#8217;s basically a one-day press launch for Simon Cox&#8217;s book, with a load [...]]]></content:encoded>
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