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[TheOldLady]

It’s a shame that the labyrinth got flooded and is now inaccessible by the usual dry-as-dust archeological means.

Perhaps some dam- or canal-building engineers could lend a hand with excavating the flooded parts so that the writings that are purportedly inside the structure can be accessed.

Dr. Schoch must be frustrated as heck!

[BenLurkin]

Herodotus (fifth century B.C.) and other Greek and Roman writers described a magnificent labyrinth in Egypt, containing three thousand rooms on two levels. Pliny the Elder (first century A.D.) related that the Egyptian labyrinth was already 3600 years old in his time.

Many, if not most, ancient measurements need to be divided by ten to get close to the actual size or scope. But even applying that rule of thumb, these are still interesting numbers.

[Berosus]

I heard from somebody (David Rohl?) that the Labyrinth was probably an enormous administrative center, the bronze age equivalent of a cubicle farm, that Joseph built to handle the collection and distribution of grain during the seven good years and the seven years of famine. This was the main one, but two more were built at Thebes and in the eastern Nile delta; the city of Avaris (Rowarty) got its name from the latter one.