The recently reopened Archaeological Museum in Heraklion, Crete, is fantastic. I was lucky enough to visit this past September, just two short months ago. Many more artifacts are on display, and the displays themselves are wonderful. You get to see so many incredible things produced by the Minoan civilization. One of them is this vase with a band of decoration showing ibexes. The ones in the middle are posing heroically and symmetrically for their snapshots, proper fellows, while the one on the right has been distracted and is biting at an itchy spot– a bit of naturalistic, behavioral detail. The Minoans must have loved nature as plants and animals figure heavily in their representational art, still vibrant and compelling 3500 years later.