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Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Minoan Archaeology of Crete
The Minoans were going off to Greece and hunting lions and then almost perhaps bringing back the skins and possibly the heads as a trophy. What you have here is an attempt to preserve this moment I think because this is an era before taxidermy. And one of the interesting things about these octopuses is the way you have their tentacles swirling sometimes they have the eyes open so these are octopuses being seen underwater. It's absolutely striking.
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