Knossos
The Ancients
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The Myth of the Minotaur
The story of bull leaping in Minoan times does it seem to evolve over time too? That's certainly possible. 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. Krasos becomes a Greek and a Roman city long after the palace is destroyed but they start to make coins with labyrinth designs and also designs of the Minotaur on.
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