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Palace of the Minotaur and cradle of European civilization

- object type: wall painting (fresco) - description: (reconstruction Evans) youth, painted blue, gathering saffron into a basket / (reconstruction P. de Jong): blue monkey (a second monkey added) gath
- object type: wall painting (fresco) - description: (reconstruction Evans) youth, painted blue, gathering saffron into a basket / (reconstruction P. de Jong): blue monkey (a second monkey added)… © ArchaiOptix, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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