Minoan Bull Leaping, The Toreador Fresco, Knossos Palace, Crete, ca. 1500 B.C.E.
Bull-leaping has been depicted on pottery and other forms of art and comes to us mostly from Minoan Crete but there is evidence of it elsewhere in the ancient world. The act of bull-leaping was part of a ritual pertaining to the worship of the bull.
The Toreador Fresco, Knossos Palace, Crete, ca. 1500 BC (fresco) by
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