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Christian Benn
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2/n ..version. In each there is what appears to be a floating piece of rock. However, to my eye at least, this looked to be a crude map of Crete, as I could imagine being produced without more accurate instruments. Clearer in the restored version, I've rotated a modern map of Crete to reflect...

Restored version of the Blue Monkey on Rocks at Knossos.
Map of Crete rotated around 30° counterclockwise.
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3/n ...the orientation of, what I see as, Crete in the fresco. As far as I can tell this is not an observation previously been made and if it is Crete, from what I've been able to find, would predate known maps by some considerable margin. If it is indeed Crete, could the monkey be climbing...

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Christian Benn
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Human person. New here. Have been known to be amusing in the past, may again be, one day. Love a well used apostrophe. Hate a superfluous Oxford comma.
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