Bronze came to be used for objects such as this bull-leaper. However, the first known representation of something similar to bull-leaping is a clay vessel dating to before 2000 BC, now in the ...

The 'recortadores' event, or bull leaping, is known as a non-violent alternative to more commonly seen bullfighting. Unlike matadors, whose intention is to torment and kill the bill, the men jump ...

Modern day Spanish 'Recortadores' continue a bull leaping tradition that goes back to the legendary King Minos from Crete's Minoan civilisation Credit: Mery Nunez / Barcroft Media With as many as ...

But bull-leaping? That's a whole new level of courage (craziness?). For Spaniard José Manuel Medina, however, bull-leaping, or "recorte," is an adrenaline-filled way of life.

Indeed a whole history of art could be written tracing a line of imaginative descent from the cave paintings of Lascaux, through statues of Minoan bull-leapers, through Rembrandt’s 1632 ...

In fact, humanity has a long and morally complex history of games and rituals involving other organisms, from the bull leapers of the Minoan civilization to the chariot races of ancient Rome.

Danielle Smithers, witness who recorded video of a bull leaping over a fence at a packed Oregon rodeo, describes the situation on 'Fox & Friends First.' ...

Trade also spread Minoan ideas and art around the Eastern Mediterranean. Bull leaping still takes place today in south-west France and Spain The small bronze statuette from Minoan Crete ...

To consider the Minoans and the role of the bull in myth and legend, Neil MacGregor introduces us to a small bronze sculpture of a man leaping over a bull, one of the highlights of the British ...