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I have and have read that, too :-) Though promising (for a layman hobbyist like me) attempt, there simply have been too many cranks [otenet.gr] trying to decipher the Phaistos disk [interkriti.org] to take any deciphering attempts seriously, unless several experts can agree. While Fischer may be the breaker of the rongorongo (the Easter Island tablets), he came through as having quite a high opinion of himself, and as a general rule I shy away from such people.
I can recommend Breaking the Maya Code [amazon.com]. Deciphering the Maya script i