Hawara Labyrinth
This I have actually seen, a work beyond words. For if
anyone put together the buildings of the
These are the words of ancient Greek historian Herodotus
written in the 5 th century BC (‘Histories’, Book, II, 148), describing a
colossal temple said to contain 3,000 rooms full of hieroglyphs and paintings.
It was named ‘Labyrinth’ by the Greeks after the complex maze of corridors
designed by Daedalus for King Minos of Crete, where the legendary Minotaur
dwelt. Yet today, nothing remains of this supposedly grand temple complex – at
least not on the surface. The mighty labyrinth became lost to the pages of
history.
