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Palace of the Minotaur and cradle of European civilization

The "Blue Boy" or the "Saffron-Gtherer". Minoan fresco from Knossos. The fresco restoration according to Evans, where the blue figure was identified as a young boy. Above the rear of the body is visib
The "Blue Boy" or the "Saffron-Gtherer". Minoan fresco from Knossos. The fresco restoration according to Evans, where the blue figure was identified as a young boy. Above the rear of the body is… © Zde (photograph); Émile Gilliéron pere (fresco reconstruction), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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