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architectural elements in the Minoan culture. Toward the end of the Bronze Age, gypsum alabaster from Cretan quarries was exported and used elsewhere, for example for benches in Mycenae. In the ruins of Akrotiri on Santorinii, it was used for floor tiles. Alabaster is easily worked and became a common and highly valued material for sculptures and monuments

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