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Dan Snow's History Hit
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The History of the Labyrinth
Double faced acts with a very curved faces to it too but do we have any ideas to what it's functional? Well this has been a subject of debate among Minoan archaeologists. The idea is that as you use them more and more maybe the sides start to curve because very early on in this palatial period you also get these flimsy looking double axes which clearly were too thin to be used to cut off the head of an animalbut they were deposited as ritual objects. Maybe these votive objects are somehow recalling the origin of the double axe in animal sacrifice.
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