Bronze Age
October 02, 2020
Reading with translationExercise
🔉In the Bronze Age, the island of Santorini was a major trade center.
🔉 Despite volcanic eruption, the island preserved fresco paintings with the images of blue monkeys.
🔉The level of detail served as evidence that they were painted by people who had seen these primates alive.
🔉 Despite volcanic eruption, the island preserved fresco paintings with the images of blue monkeys.
🔉The level of detail served as evidence that they were painted by people who had seen these primates alive.
I 🔉According to the 🔉archaeologists , the 🔉apes 🔉belonged to the African 🔉type.
🔉 Moreover, they found out the evidence of trade relations between the islanders and Egypt.
🔉 Later, primatologists came to the conclusion that some apes I were 🔉native to India.
🔉The researchers considered not only the color of the fur but also body shapes and tail positions of the animals by analyzing the paintings.
🔉They also found out that some of the monkeys were baboons.
🔉The other ones were langurs primates native to the Indian subcontinent.
🔉These findings mean that there were contacts between India and Greece in the Bronze Age although the distance between two countries is more than 4 I 🔉thousand kilometers.