Friday, December 20, 2019

The Interconnected Ancient World VIII: Egyptian and Indian Monkeys in Minoan Greece

Another news story of far-flung contact from Greece has appeared. This time it is from Minoan times (slightly earlier than the Mycenaean times we noted earlier). The place is Akrotiti on Santorini (Thera). A mural depicts a number of monkeys, which are not native to Greece. Most of monkeys are baboons from Egypt, but one of them is a langur from India.

We could sit comfortably in our disciplinary silos if the ancients had not monkeyed around with our evidence.