The
Labyrinth of Crete
near Gortys
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The
Labyrinth Cave,
F.W. Sieber, Leipzig 1823 |
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Waldseemueller
1522 |
Muenster
1598 |
Ortelius 1603 |
Peeters
1692 |
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Val 1667 |
1st
Visit July 1st, 2008
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Entrance |
German
2nd world war shells |
Ariadne-threads |
Inscriptions |
Inscriptions |
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Through
a bypass |
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View
from 2nd entrance to the Messara plain |
2nd
Visit July 1st, 2009
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View
to the Messara |
Split
column |
Ceiling
parts recently ... |
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broken down |
Ceiling
broken down |
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Cut
stones |
Through
a bypass |
Bat,
annoyed |
Old
ammunition |
Dripstones |
3rd
Visit Oct 6th, 2009
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Enter |
WW2
ammunition |
Ceiling
parts |
...
broken down |
Passage |
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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
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Labyrinth
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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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