"The Bronze Age is incredibly exciting." Phillip Stockhammer
Sport is murder
In the case of the famous bull jump, however, that wasn't so far off, because training with a wild bull might have cost many a clumsy jumper their lives.
Shopping list
It's actually wonderful that extensive stores were found in the palace of Knossos with clay tablets inscribed with a script called Linear B, an early Greek. We can even read them! But it is almost exclusively about business texts - in literary terms comparable to a today's receipt from purchasing.
Perfume oil
What to do if you wanted to prepare yourself for your loved one in the Bronze Age Knossos? You rubbed yourself with scented olive oil - for example with the aromas of rose or sage - and hoped that too much dust didn't stick to the oily body!
Flushed toilet
Not a modern invention! Even in the palace of Knossos there was a toilet seat in the apartments of the rulers, under which there was a water drain that could wash away everything that fell into the toilet. You just knew how to live cultivated in the palace!
