Show ANCIENT MARVEL OF EGYPT labyrinth constructed some years year ago was a structure of colossal size king brinos with his labyrinth on the island of crete Is generally supposed to have been the tha originator of the maze idea but egypt has a labyrinth too and egypt manages to hold the record for or antiquity in almost everything ery thing labyrinths intruded tills this egyptian labyrinth Is years old it Is merely a chaotic mass of rocks piled up in the desert a few miles out of Ile dinet net the outlines of the walls merge dimly here and there from the ruins and from these outlines and the carvings on the stones E egyptologists deduce that the labyrinth was built by a certain king labares La barys who was more popularly known as III trio the structure was BOO by GOO COO feet feel it contained rooms halt half above ground halt half below remember that the largest hotel in our present day world boasts about that number of rooms on a dozen floors and covers a city square and some idea of the size of ct the two story labyrinth can b be e gained alicd nobody has figured out yet N why hy king built this enormous palace or tomb in the lower story history says say the sacred crocodiles and kings were hurled buried while the upper foor floor was a few centuries after king time used as a seat of government the labyrinth was a wonderful place one of the most wonderful in egipto if our ideas of it are correct and its greatness was its downfall the citizens of a nearby near by town who worshiped the ichneumon resented the sacred crocodiles of the labyrinth and so they made an attack upon one of king successors and reduced the largest structure in egypt to a ruin |