Labyrinths have been around for over 4000 years and have never been as popular as they are today.
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In Greek mythology, the Labyrinth (Greek λαβύρινθος labyrinthos) was an elaborate structure designed and built by the legendary architect Daedalus for King Minos of Crete.
Its function was to hold the Minotaur, a creature that was half man and half bull and was eventually killed by the Athenian hero Theseus. Daedalus had made the Labyrinth so cunningly that he himself could barely escape it after he built it.
Labyrinth Walls
Theseus was aided by Ariadne, who provided him with a fateful thread, the “clew,” or “clue,” to wind his way back again.
The term labyrinth is often used interchangeably with maze, but modern scholars of the subject use a stricter definition. For them, a maze is a tour puzzle in the form of a complex branching passage with choices of path and direction; while a single-path (unicursal) labyrinth has only a single Eulerian path to the center.
A labyrinth has an unambiguous through-route to the center and back and is not designed to be difficult to navigate.
