Egypt's Lost Labyrinth & the Pyramid of Amenemhet lll at Hawara | Megalithomania

Описание: NEW TOUR ANNOUNCED: Beneath the Pyramids Egypt Tour, 1st - 14th February 2026. Save $300 for a limited time: https://www.megalithomania.co.uk/egyp.... An exploration of the remains of the Hawara Pyramid and the mysterious underground Labyrinth with Andrew Collins and Hugh Newman, with a guest appearance from Jj Ainsworth. It is a 12th dynasty pyramid and has a megalithic foundation with mud brick construction on top. The strange labyrinth is now mostly destroyed but parts of it still can still be seen. Herodotus, in Book II of 'Histories', describes the labyrinth and he considered it to surpass the pyramids in grandeur:

"It has twelve covered courts — six in a row facing north, six south — the gates of the one range exactly fronting the gates of the other. Inside, the building is of two storeys and contains three thousand rooms, of which half are underground, and the other half directly above them. I was taken through the rooms in the upper storey, so what I shall say of them is from my own observation, but the underground ones I can speak of only from report, because the Egyptians in charge refused to let me see them, as they contain the tombs of the kings who built the labyrinth, and also the tombs of the sacred crocodiles. The upper rooms, on the contrary, I did actually see, and it is hard to believe that they are the work of men; the baffling and intricate passages from room to room and from court to court were an endless wonder to me, as we passed from a courtyard into rooms, from rooms into galleries, from galleries into more rooms and thence into yet more courtyards. The roof of every chamber, courtyard, and gallery is, like the walls, of stone. The walls are covered with carved figures, and each court is exquisitely built of white marble and surrounded by a colonnade."

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