Whether home to Egypt’s first pharaohs or not, Thinis became an influential political center of the 8th nome, or province, in Upper Egypt. “From the Old Kingdom (ca. 2649–2150 B.C.) on, Thinis was a ...

This I have actually seen, a work beyond words. For if anyone put together the buildings of the Greeks and display of their labours, they would seem lesser in both effort and expense to this labyrinth ...

The earliest trace of this legend comes from Herodotus, the 5th century BCE Greek historian. In The Histories 2.111, he wrote about the blind king of Egypt named Pheron. According to this Greek ...