Forget your garden hedge maze. Ancient builders created labyrinths so epic that they spawned entire myths, like the Minotaur’s crib. We’ve uncovered the real-world sites that proved these legendary ...

In Greek myth, Poseidon punished Minos by making his wife Pasiphaë lust for a white bull. Sometime later, Pasiphaë gave birth to the Minotaur, a monster with the head of a bull and the body of a man.

In Greek myth, King Minos, to consolidate his position on the Cretan throne, asked the god Poseidon to send him a snow-white bull as a sign of divine favour. But instead of sacrificing the superb bull ...