It’s time to celebrate #FrescoFriday with a little bit of monkeying around 🐵

We travel back in time to Knossos and the House of the Frescoes (aptly or boringly named depending on your perspective). Dating to c. 1580–30 BCE this fresco panel is largely fragmentary leaving the concept of monkeys frolicking a possibility but not a certainty. Flowers and nature seem to be abundant but the exact composition of the scene remains elusive.

#History #Minoa

New book:

1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (2014, revised: 2021) - Eric H. Cline

The cover art comes from a section of painting "Fire of Troy", by Keuninck (Coninck), Kerstiaen de

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1177_B.C.:_The_Year_Civilization_Collapsed

#EricCline #EricHCline #LateBronzeAge #BronzeAge #Archaeology #LateBronzeAgeCollapse #Egyptian #Hittite #Canaan #Cyprus #Minoa #Mycenaea #Assyria #Babylonia

This is just an awe-inspiring tale of brilliance combined with #patience and #luck:

"Cracking The Code Of Linear B", Antigone (https://antigonejournal.com/2024/01/decipherment-linear-b/).

#Cipher #Decipherment #Puzzle #Cryptography #LinearB #Greece #Minoa #AncientGreece #Script #Language #Writing #History #WW2

DIVES + Minoa @ Badehaus, Berlin

https://mobilize.berlin/events/92cb0626-512d-4cdf-8273-b1a301ddbb7d