Show ANCIENT MARVEL OF EGYPT T labyrinth constructed some years ago was a structure of colossal size 1 king ing minos with his labyrinth 0 on a the island of crete Is generally s supposed ua P to have been the originator of the maze idea but egypt has a laby rath too and egypt manages to hold the record for antiquity in almost everything ery thing labyrinths unlaced unladed this egyptian labyrinth Is years old it Is merely a chaotic mass of rocks piled up in the desert a few miles out of the outlines of the walls malls merge dimly here and there from the ruins and from these out lines and the carvings on the stones egyptologists deduce that the laby linth was as built by a certain king a labares La barys who was more popularly larl y known as III 1 the structure was BOO by COO feet 4 it contained 3 rooms half above ground halt half below remember that A 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 the two story labyrinth can be gained nobody has figured out yet why king built this enormous palace or tomb in the lower story history says the sacred crocodiles and lings kings were buried while the upper floor was a few centuries after king s time used as a seat of government the labyrinth was a wonderful place one of the most wonderful in it if our ideas of it are correct and its greatness was ite its downfall the citizens ot of a nearby town who mho ij worshiped the lc ichneumon neumon resented the sacred crocodiles crocodiles ot of the labyrinth ajaj and so they made an attack upon one j 5 of king successors and 1 4 i reduced the largest structure in egypt lar to a ruin i |