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The Labyrinth of Crete
near Gortys

 

The Labyrinth Cave,
F.W. Sieber,  Leipzig 1823

 

Waldseemueller 1522

Muenster  1598

Ortelius 1603
Peeters 1692
du Val  1667

 

 

1st Visit  July 1st, 2008

Entrance

German 2nd world war shells

Ariadne-threads
Inscriptions
Inscriptions

 

 

 

Through a bypass
View from 2nd entrance to the Messara plain

 

 

2nd Visit  July 1st, 2009

View to the Messara

Split column

Ceiling parts recently ...
... broken down
Ceiling broken down

 

Cut stones

Through a bypass

Bat, annoyed
Old ammunition
Dripstones

 

 

3rd Visit  Oct 6th, 2009

Enter

WW2 ammunition

Ceiling parts
... broken down
Passage

 

Inscriptions

Ceiling fragments

Bat
WW2 lorry near entrance
WW2 lorry (see below)

 

 

The Labyrinth-Cave  in 1943
used as ammunition storage by German occupation troops

Copyright:  Bundesarchiv Koblenz

Labyrinth  1943

Labyrinth  1943

Labyrinth  1943
Labyrinth  1943
Labyrinth  1943

 

Labyrinth  1943

Labyrinth  1943

Labyrinth  1943
Labyrinth  1943
Labyrinth  1943

 

Labyrinth  1943

Labyrinth  1943

Labyrinth  1943
Labyrinth  1943
Labyrinth  1943

 

 

Labyrinth  1943

Labyrinth  1943
Labyrinth  1943

The photos can be found in the  Bundesarchiv Koblenz
They had been discovered and identified there on Nov 29th 2008  by the author of these pages, Wolfgang Kistler.
They were digitalized, put into the Bundesarchiv Picture Database and are now accessible to everybody.


Links:

a unique, very detailled site
labyrinthos.ch (Thomas M. Waldmann)

explorecrete.com

Video, 2003

 

 

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