The
other
well known labyrinth
was
a pyramid complex (金字塔群) of many courts in Egypt, built at Hawara for Amenemhet Ⅲ, a ruler of the 12th Dynasty (1844-1797 BC). There were twelve separate courts of large size — six in a row facing north, six south — and all connected by corridors (走廊). Inside, the building was of two stories and contained about three thousand rooms, of which one half were underground, and the other half directly above them. The labyrinth was described by the Greek historian Herodotus,
“The Egyptians in charge refused to let me see the underground ones, as they contain the tombs of the kings. I did actually see the upper rooms,
and it is hard to believe that they are the work of men. The mysterious
and complicated passages from room to room and from court to court were an endless wonder to me.” The great Egyptian labyrinth fell into ruin at some unknown point and was pulled down. So great was the site as a source of building materials that a small town grew up around the ruins. Nothing remains of this great architectural wonder today except the destroyed pyramid of Amenemhet Ⅲ at Hawara by the oasis
(绿洲)
of Faiyum.
1.Minos put Daedalus into prison ________.
A.because Daedalus could not get out of the labyrinth
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