In an odd coincidence - I'm just sailing away from Crete, I've always been interested in the Minion civilisation which dates at its earliest to 3500 years ago.
Things of note. Please respect the following text, which is civil and describes nude sculpture, bearing in mind Minoan civilisation was renowned for priestesses which wore bodices that exposed their breasts.
A few days ago I saw a Minoan figure of a female clay bust, which I have not found online, in the Heraklion Archaelogical museum, and it is the finest sculpture of breasts I have ever seen that predates modernity. I will try and upload an image if anyone is interested. Just perfectly sculpted and realistic.
Within the theme, I also discovered a 3500 year old sculpture of a woman which has over 100 breasts all over it. Oddly the sculpture was listed as having "nubs" quite why the museum did I have no idea why. While odd, what I found compelling , is that a figure of a multiple breasted woman is renowned in the city of Ephesus - called the Diana of Ephesus - (feel free to google). I have not found any link in museum of in texts, but it must be related, as Ephesus was also settled by Minoans. Just an odd similarity which I do genuinely is related.
I am not a historian so please chime in if there is a link.
But importantly - I just wanted to share my observation, that usual sculptures one associates with minoan civilisation such as the priestess holding the snakes - seems like an amateur attempt at sculpture compared to the more secretive, hidden pieces that I happened to come across. This helps to contextualise the quality of detail in the agate described in the article.
No conspiracy life is just surprising like that.
Just my take I hope it was of interest.
PS - If anyone is interested in video just browse the Crete tag on tiktok as I know there is video there.
Things of note. Please respect the following text, which is civil and describes nude sculpture, bearing in mind Minoan civilisation was renowned for priestesses which wore bodices that exposed their breasts.
A few days ago I saw a Minoan figure of a female clay bust, which I have not found online, in the Heraklion Archaelogical museum, and it is the finest sculpture of breasts I have ever seen that predates modernity. I will try and upload an image if anyone is interested. Just perfectly sculpted and realistic.
Within the theme, I also discovered a 3500 year old sculpture of a woman which has over 100 breasts all over it. Oddly the sculpture was listed as having "nubs" quite why the museum did I have no idea why. While odd, what I found compelling , is that a figure of a multiple breasted woman is renowned in the city of Ephesus - called the Diana of Ephesus - (feel free to google). I have not found any link in museum of in texts, but it must be related, as Ephesus was also settled by Minoans. Just an odd similarity which I do genuinely is related.
I am not a historian so please chime in if there is a link.
But importantly - I just wanted to share my observation, that usual sculptures one associates with minoan civilisation such as the priestess holding the snakes - seems like an amateur attempt at sculpture compared to the more secretive, hidden pieces that I happened to come across. This helps to contextualise the quality of detail in the agate described in the article.
No conspiracy life is just surprising like that.
Just my take I hope it was of interest. PS - If anyone is interested in video just browse the Crete tag on tiktok as I know there is video there.