The Lost Labyrinth of Egypt? – Better Living Through Literature

I follow Stephen Ellcock, an author and “renowned image collector” (according to his publisher), on Instagram. He’ll drop a slideshow of art and images, loosely related by theme, which is how I found out about The Great Lost Labyrinth of Egypt (!).

Image from Stephen’s post, captioned “The Great Lost Labyrinth of Egypt, (said to be more impressive even than the pyramids) as described first by Herodotus. 1670s engraving by Athanasius Kircher.”

I went right to Wikipedia, as one does, and read about it (emphasis mine for the cool parts!):

There are also double sets of chambers, three thousand altogether, fifteen hundred above and the same number under ground. … We learned through conversation about [the labyrinth’s] underground chambers; the Egyptian caretakers would by no means show them, as they were, they said, the burial vaults of the kings who first built this labyrinth, and of the sacred crocodiles. …

But I really wanted more artists’ recreations! I want more info! I also want either a current expedition to discover more of the ruins or a movie about such a thing, I’m not picky.

I did a brief wider search and found “Virtual Harawa,” plans for a research expedition, and, uh, a TikTok from a cosplayer claiming there were LIDAR scans? But not much more! Get moving, scientists, I want my National Geograhpic special/summer movie.