Ancient Civilisations were savage, terrifying things, weren't they? In fact, we're sometimes GLAD they were lost.
Take this imposing gateway in Crete, for instance. These stone horns surmounted the palace of Minos and represented the souls of sacrificed bulls. They are symbols of blood and fear and death, and, gateway or not, we're not going in.
A Mycenaean death mask, modelled from gold and a picture of Stan Laurel.
A Cretan Snake Goddess. She looks angry. And deadly. Oh, and she's suffered a 'wardrobe malfunction' - a nip slip, in modern parlance, and she's going to kill you for noticing.
Another death mask, purported to be Agamemnon, i.e. Sean Connery in 'Time Bandits'.
Our records indicate that we do actually have a copy of 'Lost Worlds, Volume 1' in our archive but, embarrassingly, we can't find it.
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