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Palace of Knossos is a labyrinth installation in Crete, Greece. The built of stone. Documented age: ~2000-1400 BC (2000 - 1400 BC). Current condition: restored. The largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete and legendary seat of King Minos, the Palace of Knossos sprawls across 22,000 square meters of interconnected rooms, corridors, and stairways — a complexity so bewildering it likely inspired the Minotaur's Labyrinth myth. Documentation sources: Evans 1921. A pattern with one entrance, one path, and no choices — repeated by unrelated cultures across thousands of years. The labyrinth is one of several hundred sites of this type catalogued globally; each preserves the same unicursal walking-pattern with regional variation in scale, material, and date.
The labyrinth tradition spans at least 4,000 years of documented practice across northern Europe, the Mediterranean, the British Isles, North America, and the Indian subcontinent.