UNBELIEVABLE! Found the Labyrinth of the Minotaur in Crete!

An abandoned quarry on the island of Crete, which has an elaborate network of underground tunnels, could be the real ancient Labyrinth, the mythical maze in which was the home of the legendary Minotaur…
A team of British and Greek experts, who carried out a mission this summer in the maze, believes that the location, next to Gortyna, to the south of the island, it may be the point that is the real labyrinth, that, until today, all of us recognise that is located in the Minoan Palace at Knossos, which was associated with the myth of the Minotaur, after the excavation of a century ago.
Knossos is considered to be almost certain that it is the home of the legendary King Minos, who is said to have built the Labyrinth to hide the Minotaur -a terrifying creature born from the union of the woman the king with a bull.
Experts, however, the last mission in the south of Crete, believe that the complex of tunnels next to Gortyn, which was the ancient roman capital of Crete, could equally be the point where the real Labyrinth -if it turns out that there is a dose of truth that the myth was based on a real location and a real king.
Nicholas Howarth, a geographer from the University of Oxford and head of the mission, said that there was a danger of losing the Gortyn from the story of the Labyrinth because of the pre-eminent position occupied Knossos the legend, a position fostered by Arthur Evans, a prominent British archaeologist, who conducted excavations at Knossos between 1900 and 1935.
“Visitors not only come to see the ruins, which he discovered and was recently restored by the Evans, but also to seek a connection with the mythical past of the Age of Heroes. It is a sad fact that almost all visitors to Knossos have never heard of the other “possible” locations of the mythical Labyrinth,” said the Howarth.
The Oxford researchers, who worked together with experts of the Greek Speleological society, found that the complex of tunnels at Gortyn had been “visited” recently looters, who were preparing to blow up one of the inner chambers, with the hope of finding a hidden treasure room.
The caves, which is known in the region as the Caves of the Maze, consisting of nearly 4 miles of connected tunnels, with large chambers and dead ends rooms. The location visited by the middle ages many travelers, in search of the Maze, but then found the Knossos in the late 19th century, the Gortyn was forgotten, and was used as a munitions dump by the Nazis during World War ii.
“If someone comes in the Caverns of the Labyrinth of Gortyna will understand immediately that this is a very dark place and can be lost very easily. The case of Evans that the Palace of Knossos is also the Labyrinth must be considered with a lot of critical thinking,” added Howarth.
“The fact that this idea prevails so much in the popular imagination seems to have more to do with our romantic desire to believe in the stories of the past, which combined successfully with the strong personality of Evans, and the pride of place.”
Apart from Knossos and Gortyn, there is a third cluster of caves, in the Dark of Crete (near Gouves), which could also be argued that there is the ancient Labyrinth. “If you look at the archaeological facts, it is extremely difficult to say whether, indeed, there was the Maze. I believe that each of the three sites claiming, rightly, its own share in the mystery of the Maze, but in the end, questions that neither archaeology nor mythology can answer with certainty,” stressed the Howarth.
Andrew Shapland, curator of Greek Bronze Age at the British Museum in London, argued that the location of the Maze was a mystery that wouldn’t solve anything. Visitors looking for the Labyrinth in Gortyn from the 12th century.
“I believe, however, that Knossos is the most likely candidate because it is based in the classical tradition, and not in the later tradition of travellers,” added Dr. Shapland. “Knossos is mentioned in Homer. If there was indeed a Maze, it was the way in which a property, such as Knossos, was moved to a later Greek myth.”