Minoan Woman Fresco Fragment (IMAGE)

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Minoan Woman Fresco Fragment

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The Minoans were a literate Bronze Age civilization that flourished thousands of years ago (one woman shown dancing, in a fresco fragment that dates from 1600-1450 BCE).

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<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AMI_-_T%C3%A4nzerin.jpg" target="_blank">Photo</a> by Wolfgang Sauber is licensed under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en" target="_blank">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>

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