Editing Labyrinth (section)

===The Egyptian labyrinth===
{{see also|Labyrinth of Egypt}}
In Book II of his ''[[Histories (Herodotus)#Book II (Euterpe)|Histories]]'', [[Herodotus]] applies the term "labyrinth" to a building complex in Egypt "near the place called the [[Crocodilopolis|City of Crocodiles]]", that he considered to surpass the [[Egyptian pyramids|pyramids]].<ref>[[Herodotus]], ''[[The Histories of Herodotus|The Histories]]'', translated by [[Aubrey de Sélincourt]], Book II, pp. 160–161.</ref> The structure, which may have been a collection of funerary temples such as are commonly found near Egyptian pyramids,<ref name="Kern 2000, p. 59">Kern 2000, p. 59.</ref> was destroyed in antiquity and can only be partially reconstructed.<ref>{{cite book |author=Verner, Miroslav |title=The Pyramids: The Mystery, Culture and Science of Egypt's Great Monuments |publisher=Grove Press |year=2001 |isbn=9780802117038 |location=New York |page=430}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Lehner |first1=Mark |title=The Complete Pyramids |publisher=Thames & Hudson |year=2008 |isbn=9780500285473 |location=New York |page=181}}</ref> During the nineteenth century, the remains of this ancient Egyptian structure were discovered at [[Hawara]] in the [[Faiyum Oasis]] by [[Flinders Petrie]] at the foot of the pyramid of the twelfth-dynasty pharaoh [[Amenemhat III]] (reigned c. 1860 BC to c. 1814 BC).<ref>Matthews, p. 13.</ref>