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Strangest Things

This is the Phaistos Disc, measuring roughlyhalf an inch thick and six inches in diameter,...

This is the Phaistos Disc, measuring roughly
half an inch thick and six inches in diameter, made from fire-baked clay

Full Transcript

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This is the Phaistos Disc,
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measuring roughly half an inch thick
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and six inches in diameter,
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made from fire-baked clay.
Duration
11 seconds
Views
22
Timestamp in Movie
00:13:27
Uploaded
May 30, 2025
Season
1
Episode
6
Genres
documentary
Production
A+E Networks,Blink Films

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Movie Summary

From a piece of meteorite found in Tutankhamun's tomb to the Crown of Thorns, explore some of the most perplexing and unusual objects lying hidden away in museums, laboratories and storage rooms.
S01 • E04 [Tamar] It's thought that this might be - Strangest Things 00:09
[Tamar] It's thought that this might be
S01 • E10 It looks like a modern emoticon, - Strangest Things 00:07
It looks like a modern emoticon,
S01 • E05 [Corey] These known or probable words - Strangest Things 00:05
[Corey] These known or probable words
S01 • E02 [Dr. Altaweel] This gives us back a sense effectively, of a period - Strangest Things 00:08
[Dr. Altaweel] This gives us back a sense effectively, of a ...
S01 • E07 [narrator] To explain this to aliens, Sagan engraves on the cover - Strangest Things 00:10
[narrator] To explain this to aliens, Sagan engraves on the ...
S01 • E09 [narrator] For a century, suspicion has shifted from one suspect to another. - Strangest Things 00:06
[narrator] For a century, suspicion has shifted from one sus...
S01 • E03 All of this actually suggests that what we have here is a man of extreme status. - Strangest Things 00:07
All of this actually suggests that what we have here is a ma...
S01 • E05 Turing combines them with a second flaw, - Strangest Things 00:10
Turing combines them with a second flaw,
S01 • E01 You imagine walking up a sand dune and coming back two days later. - Strangest Things 00:05
You imagine walking up a sand dune and coming back two days ...
S01 • E08 So it would fit with what we know - Strangest Things 00:15
So it would fit with what we know
S01 • E10 Now, using the latest techology, - Strangest Things 00:13
Now, using the latest techology,
S01 • E02 So this allowed scholars to really have a connection to a period - Strangest Things 00:10
So this allowed scholars to really have a connection to a pe...
S01 • E09 Now, the latest research has finally cracked the case. - Strangest Things 00:05
Now, the latest research has finally cracked the case.
S01 • E04 [Abigail] And Rhodes had a long standing tradition - Strangest Things 00:12
[Abigail] And Rhodes had a long standing tradition
S01 • E06 Its two sides are covered with inscriptions - Strangest Things 00:11
Its two sides are covered with inscriptions
S01 • E03 [narrator] Yet this emaciated body, - Strangest Things 00:06
[narrator] Yet this emaciated body,
S01 • E07 So imagine you're an alien, you find this disc - Strangest Things 00:09
So imagine you're an alien, you find this disc
S01 • E09 The key is another artefact hidden away in a back room at the Natural History Museum. - Strangest Things 00:07
The key is another artefact hidden away in a back room at th...
S01 • E05 A letter can never be encrypted to itself. - Strangest Things 00:04
A letter can never be encrypted to itself.
S01 • E01 It's quite possible - Strangest Things 00:07
It's quite possible