A huge labyrinth is believed to be below the sand (Image: YOUTUBE)
A huge labyrinth is believed to be below the sand (Image: YOUTUBE)
“Egyptologist Flinders Petrie”
Well, if old Flinders says so, than it must be.
Many’s the night old Flindie and I cracked open a bottle of Heinz 57 and reminisced about our days selling sand to the Arabs.
“I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: `Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear —
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Looks like a quilt I have tucked away somewhere.
Thank-you for posting this. It is the first I’ve ever heard about it and find it fascinating.
The politics of the Egyptian government denying access and study of it is frustrating to say the least.
...To my dismay, there is now a canal running near the Hawara pyramid and right through the area of the labyrinth. I attempted to enter the pyramid, but before I could get very deep, the passage was entirely blocked by mud and water (as can be seen in the accompanying photo of the limestone lined entrance to the pyramid). Surely whatever remains of the labyrinth, buried deep below the surface, is now also flooded by the elevated water table.
