The Prince of the Lilies Fresco in Heraklion, Greece

Filed by Max the Cryptid Reporter

The Prince of the Lilies is one of the signature images of Minoan Crete, reproduced on postcards, book covers, and museum posters worldwide: a slender, muscular figure wearing a crown of lilies and peacock feathers, striding forward through a garden, one hand on his chest. It's usually presented as a king, sometimes a priest-king, ruling from Knossos around 1500 BCE. The problem is that almost none of that figure actually survived. Excavated in fragments by Arthur Evans' team in the early 1900s