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Facts about Mazes
5: Publications
In 1970s, publications of mazes boomed widely. A super great number of mazes were painted, produced, booked, an published in that time. Vladimir Koziakin, Dave Phillips and Larry Evans are the most well-known creator of mazes and launched best selling mazes book in the 1970s and early 1980s. The development of this art is more and more better, the creator apllied 3-D structure illustration.
6: Mazes in Popular Culture
Recently, mazes was created in fictional version or other word a film. The film adaptation of Stephen King’s novel (1997) and published in 1980 by title The Shining.
7: Mazes for Research in Physicology
Not only for fun and gaming, but mazes also has a serious facet. Noted in 1882, polymath John Lubbock started conducting a research about navigational skill of insects. Consequently, He published the results in his book namely Ants, Bees, and Wasps.
8: The Largest Maze was Created
In 2014, the world’s largest corn maze spanned 60 acres found in California and the Guiness Book of World Record confirmed that it was the largest maze ever created.
9: The Egyptian Labyrinth
The Egyptian Labyrinth was the first building with labirinth system. Herodotus, a greek traveller and writer, visited the Egyptian Labyrinth in the 5th century, BC. The location was just above Lake Moeris and opposite the City of Crocodiles (Crocodilopis)
10: The Cretan Labyrinth
Nowaday, the most famous labyrinth ever built all of time is that associated with the Greek Myth of Thesesus and The Minotur. The building was located at Knossos.
