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That’s open for debate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labyrinth:

”Although early Cretan coins occasionally exhibit branching (multicursal) patterns

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both logic and literary descriptions make it clear that the Minotaur was trapped in a complex branching maze

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In English, the term labyrinth is generally synonymous with maze. As a result of the long history of unicursal representation of the mythological Labyrinth, however, many contemporary scholars and enthusiasts observe a distinction between the two.”



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