Ben van Kerkwyk

Or at least if you were targeted enough, you might be able to drain a smaller area to then excavate in that area.

So the labyrinth, it's – we're talking about the great lost labyrinth of ancient Egypt, which was described by figures like Herodotus, Diodorus, Siculus, Pliny the Elder.

Figures from antiquity, these authors, and they've described it as being greater in magnificence than the pyramids.

They had these just mind-bending descriptions of what this site was, like multiple levels, 3,000 rooms.

You would get lost in it.

It had giant courtyards with pillars, all made from... I mean, one guy, I think it was Strabo, described the roof as being a single piece of stone, which I don't think it was, but it's describing those perfect joins that you see in the real megalithic work from Egypt.

So...

It's this giant mystery.

We know it's there.

And it was kind of lost to time until we found it again, basically.

It was discovered.

It was always known about because there were clues about its location.

It was always theorized to have been at this place called Hawara, which is near the Fayoum in Egypt.

And Petrie went there and dug it up, Flinders Petrie in the late 1800s, early 1900s.

And he found massive stone slabs and he thought he was standing on its foundation like it had been quarried and taken away.

And rather than that, it turns out he was most likely standing on the roof of the top layer.

It was like 10 meters below the ground.

He never got quite in.

But then the Matahar expedition happened, I think, in the mid 2017 or 2015.

There was an expedition run by a guy named Louis Decordia in partnership with the Egyptian government.