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Luigi Pernier

An Italian archaeologist who led the excavations at Phaistos and Hagia Triada in the early 1900s. On 3 July 1908, he discovered the Phaistos Disc in a basement storage room. Although his find was initially met with some skepticism regarding its authenticity, the disc is now a cornerstone of Aegean archaeology.

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