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Phaistos Disk Warrior images indicates Minoan mercenaries along the Nile. Minoans likely paid handsomely for access to the Great Pyramid, and it seems they traveled with warriors for protection. (And fourteen is about how many I would want to take with me today :)

No warriors are visible in these ferries (below) so perhaps they were encamped in Egypt. This seems likely because archaeologists recently discovered Minoan settlements in Egypt. Could it be the warriors were encamped there and available for "tourists" such as these?

Minoan ferries at Santorini, 1600 BCE Cretan cruise ferries today Anek and Minoan Lines Cretan cruise ferries in Heraklion, Crete Cruise ferries in Heraklion Click to enlarge Minoan cruise ferries today in Heraklion, Crete, the result of a long evolution of cruise ferries that began in the Bronze Age. (above) Ruins of Phaistos Palace, Crete. (below) Click the images for popup windows to enlarge

Minoan Ferries at Santorini

Phaistos Disk Perimeter Animation showing locations of the Warrior pictographs

These pages are very rich with material about Crete. In the words of the Author, Claire Grace Watson, B.A., M.S.T. "The disk is a Minoan wave spiral (left) on which is depicted the Aegean world of Minoan Crete, including a cave, a boat, a pyramid, a star, planets, a constellation, geometry, math, and everyday life in Crete that mirrors the stars above.(S. Voronan, Otonet.gr)

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