Knossos
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The History of Ball Leaping in Minoan Times
One seal stone shows a man jumping over a ball. From this activity I think you have skills emerging which people want to show off. Arthur Evans argued that when people would have found these later on maybe a thousand years later when they found these depictions of a bull's head with human legs then perhaps this is where the story of the Minotaur comes from.
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