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Herodotus, this Life’s Biggest Questions narration says, saw an Egyptian maze and judged it greater than the pyramids. The film identifies that labyrinth with Hawara, a site that looks plain today and, in the ancient reports, held a vast number of rooms above and below ground. Strabo and Pliny the Elder are lined up as further witnesses. Later finds are treated as support, including statues near the pyramid and masonry so tight a thin blade would not pass between the blocks. Flinders Petrie is the digger in this account. He is said to have distinguished a mudbrick mass from a stone core whose casing was removed in Roman times, and to have studied ramps, trapdoors, and a huge quartzite coffin set in a hollow with no ordinary entrance. Inside, the narration says, royal inscriptions were missing. Charred bone, charcoal, and burnt stone suggested the burial had been fired on purpose. Herodotus is also said to have been barred from lower rooms linked with kings and sacred crocodiles. A final stretch about another ruined city is only a trailer.
Key points
- The narration quotes Herodotus ranking an Egyptian maze above the pyramids.
- Hawara is identified as that labyrinth, with ancient writers as the witnesses.
- Tight stone joints and nearby statues are offered as reasons to trust the old description.
- Flinders Petrie is credited with sorting mudbrick from a stripped stone core and with mapping odd passages.
- A massive quartzite coffin with no normal door, and signs of fire inside, are the tomb puzzle.
- Lower rooms said to hold kings and sacred crocodiles stay outside what Herodotus was allowed to see.
Short quotes
built by Greeks one still the Labyrinth surpasses even the pyramids imagine a structure so massive that
Life's Biggest Questions, The labyrinth at Hawara
The narration repeats the claim that this maze outdid the pyramids. Watch at 1:55
with blocks fitted so tightly that not even a blade could slip between them
Life's Biggest Questions, The labyrinth at Hawara
The stonework is described as fitted too closely for a blade to enter. Watch at 4:00
been deliberately destroyed by fire the mystery deepened when Petri examined a second sarcophagus in the chamber one
Life's Biggest Questions, The labyrinth at Hawara
Petrie is said to have found a burial wrecked by fire, then a second coffin. Watch at 6:12
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