Ancient Historians Speak of a Grand Labyrinth. For centuries, the hidden labyrinth beneath the Hawara pyramid has sparked interest.Herodotus, who visited Egypt in the 5th century BCE, wrote about ...

EGYPT archaeologists uncovered what is believed to be the remains of a "lost labyrinth" below the sand of a famous pyramid site, in what was previously thought to be a mythical structure.

For Ovid, the Minotaur-housing labyrinth at Knossos was a maze of “wandering passages” that “framed confusion and seduced the eye”. Herodotus believed the Egyptian Labyrinth on the west ...

For Herodotus, the operation of history as chronicle of place and time is insufficient for understanding the human condition. The particulars, over time, fade or become distorted. Herodotus writes ...

You might not know it from the title, but Robert Strassler edited "The Landmark Herodotus" for the everyday reader. The 1,024-page book, which has been published by Bertelsmann AG's Pantheon ...

Herodotus is well known as the “father of history”. As the first writer to use the Greek “historie,” meaning an inquiry, when speaking of examining the events of the past, his seminal work ...

Herodotus wrote: "One of the mercenaries of Amasis, a Halicarnassian, Phanes by name, a man of good judgment, and a brave warrior, dissatisfied for some reason or other with his master, deserted ...