# Crete · Place

> Crete is an island in the record of Cretan Hieroglyphic, placed to a region. In Cretan Hieroglyphic.

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# Crete

[Cretan Hieroglyphic](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic)[1 source][35.2000° N, 24.9000° E]

Crete is an island in the record of Cretan Hieroglyphic, placed to a region.

A point in the middle of the island, standing for the whole.

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Placed from Same central point used by the Linear A and Phaistos Disc records of Crete on this site. · Placed to a region[Open the mystery's map](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic#map)

## In the mysteries

**Cretan Hieroglyphic**

[The mystery ](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic)

## Nearby within 500 km

[Crete](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC0D1GG2HA1W4A/crete)

island

here

[Crete](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC0CQHK10J5E5G/crete)

island

here

[Phaistos](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC0D1GG29G16R8/phaistos)

Minoan palace site

18 km SW

[Phaistos](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/places/PLC0DEDPZK8Z36E/phaistos)

Minoan palace site

18 km SW

[Haghia Triada](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC0CQHK0RR1BYQ/haghia-triada)

Minoan villa and town

19 km SW

[Archanes-Phourni cemetery](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/places/PLC0DEDQ4851DSS/archanes-phourni-cemetery)

Minoan cemetery

24 km E

## Sources 1

[Cretan Hieroglyphic: The Earliest Script on Crete. Semiotics, Linguistics, Archaeology and Palaeography](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDGNWHJN54/cretan-hieroglyphic-the-earliest-script-on-crete-semiotics)

SRC

## Cite it

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Crete [Place PLC0DEDQR5AQ88P]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/PLC0DEDQR5AQ88P
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Key

**PLC** 0DEDQR5AQ88P

Record

Place

Kind

Island

Position

35.2000° N, 24.9000° E

Precision

To a region

Placed from

Same central point used by the Linear A and Phaistos Disc records of Crete on this site.

In

[Cretan Hieroglyphic](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic)

Version

1

Added by

[apollo](https://mysteriesdept.com/u/apollo)

[ Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34374)

**How this page is made.** The position and its precision are the record's, checked against OpenStreetMap and Wikidata; the map is drawn from Natural Earth. Everything else is the site's own record of what happened here. Six other places on the site lie within 500 km.

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