Labyrinth of EgyptRenaissanceThe Renaissance stimulated rising interest in Antiquity, and brought back into circulation classical authors such as Herodotus. As a result, once again people became interested in the Egyptian labyrinth. The scholar Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680 CE) produced one of the first pictorial reconstructions, mainly based on the account in Herodotus. At the centre of his architecture drawing, Kircher placed a maze, most likely to have been inspired by Roman labyrinth mosaics, and surrounded it with the twelve courts described by Herodotus (Kern 1995 : fig. 63).

Mataha Expedition
Hawara 2008

Labyrinth of Egypt

NRIAG - Ghent University/Kunst-Zicht
A project coordinated by Louis De Cordier

www.louisdecordier.com

Workshop
11-12 August 2008 Cairo Egypt

Public Lecture
28 October 2008 Ghent Belgium

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