The Labyrinth of the Minotaur

We know the “staff” of the labyrinth from the Greek mythology: King Minos of Crete, his wife Pasiphaë, her daughter Ariadne, the hero Theseus, the master builder and inventor Daedalos, his son Icarus and the impossible mythological monster Minotaur, part person, part animal for whom the labyrinth was built as a prison.
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The Knidos Labyrinth

The classical labyrinth, sometimes called Cretan labyrinth, has a small center. It is normally as largely as the ways width.
By many in the labyrinth movement a labyrinth with a large center was always wished, especially for walkable labyrinths. Because there a bigger group can meet in the center.
Some years ago I was faced with this [...]

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The Troy Towns of Northern Europe

is the (translated) title of a book by Dr. Ernst Krause from the year 1893.
And because the complete title contains (nearly) the complete book, here the title page is shown:
Attention: This is all in German and the characters are old German too.
The book says essentially that all the legends concerning the Troy Towns are of [...]

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Archaeoastronomy for the Labyrinth at Steigra

There are so far hardly archaeoastronomical considerations of the historical labyrinths. Mechthild Meinike from Halle (Germany) made such investigations for the Troy Town of Steigra .
The area around Steigra is richly at early finds, in particular the sky disk of Nebra and the circle of Goseck provided headlines in the last years. This very day [...]

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