This fresco depicts an athletic event, leaping the bull. Such festivities indicate the sophistication of Minoan society and may have even been procursors to the Greek olympiads. The pale skin is supposed to represent women and dark skin the men. However there is no consensus on what it symbolises, which is quite common of a civilisation so lost to us. The clearer image is a replica currently in the site of Knossos and the fainter one the original now in the museum. You can also see which fragments they have and where they have had to fill in. All the same just think these frescoes have survived almost 4,000 years of the elements.
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