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Dan Snow's History Hit

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The Origins of the Minotaur

Seal stones could be the historical basis for the myth of the Minotaur. They match with the whole design of the seal stone, its circular nature. The Minoan's invented something called the flying gallop which was to show animals in motion and so some of these depictions are really very experiments in art.

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