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Mazes and Labyriths: Chapter III. The Egyptian Labyrinth (continued)

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(ii) Accounts of Later Explorers A STRUCTURE which evoked so much wonder and admiration in ancient times can hardly fail to have aroused the curiosity of later generations, but no serious attempts to locate it seem to have been made by Europeans until several centuries later. It was then far too late to observe any of its glories, for it was all but destroyed in Roman times, and a village sprang up on its site, largely constructed from its debris. The Italian traveller Gemelli-Careri, who…

Mazes and Labyriths: Chapter III. The Egyptian Labyrinth (continued)

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