Video with Phillip
"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!
