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Was the labyrinth real? A 20,000-square-metre palace at Knossos, bulls painted on its walls, and a corridor decorated with a maze pattern. Watch the full documentary to find out what was really hiding at the heart of it. Full story: The Minotaur | The Monster at the Heart of the Labyrinth. #Minotaur #Knossos #Shorts

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00:00Was the labyrinth real? Proof 1. At Nossos on Crete, archaeologists dug up a palace covering more than 20,000
00:08square meters, with hundreds of rooms, staircases that doubled back, and corridors that seemed to lead nowhere.
00:17Proof 2. Its walls were painted with bulls and great plaster bull horns stood at its gateways in a palace
00:24ruled by a king called Minos.
00:27Proof 3. A corridor in that palace was decorated with a painted maze pattern.
00:32So the palace was real, the bulls were real, and the king was real.
00:37Watch the full documentary to find out what was really hiding at the heart of it.

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