A baby crawls forward on stout little arms and legs. Head up, it aims for the future, light catching its plucky face and plump ears. It is a figure so instantly recognisable as to exist outside time, speaking directly to our present moment. Yet it is more than 3,000 years old.
It is also tiny, no bigger than the palm of your hand, its charm cast in black copper alloy on a miniature scale. Nothing like it has ever been found from the Minoan era in which it was made, or the place where it was discovered – the mysterious subterranean Psychro Cave on the island of Crete.
