Sardegna 6000 years ago
Tikla in Madhya Pradesh, India 250 BC
The earliest Christian labyrinth appearing on a wall in a church is believed to be at St Martino Cathedral in Lucca, Italy and dates from the ninth century.
HIC QVEM CRETICVS EDIT
DEDALVS EST LABERINTHVS
DE QVO NVLLVS VADERE
QVIVIT QVI FVIT INTVS
NI THESEVS GRATIS ARIADNAE STAMINE JVTVS
Ita Daedalus implet
innumeras errore vias vixque ipse reverti
ad limen potuit.
(Ovid, Metamorphoses 8.166-68).
LINK
INTRO
THE CENTRE OF THE LABYRINTH
THE FIRST LABYRINTHS
THE MYSTERY OF THE LABYRINTH
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