Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

In Greek mythology, Minos was born to Zeus and Europa.

He became the first king of Crete, the largest of the Greek islands, where he didn't exactly

rule with kindness.

Every nine years, he would demand another ruler to send seven boys and seven girls into

the labyrinth.

The labyrinth was a kind of maze created for Minos by the craftsman, Deadlyus, and within

its elusive center lived the king's son, the Minotaur, a creature possessing the body

of a man and the head of a bull.

King Minos, his labyrinth and his Minotaur, were all just stories, fables about gods and

goddesses to help explain how Greece had come to be.

However, to the ancient Greeks, they were more than just stories.

They were legendary tales of good and evil about deities that were worshipped by the masses.

And if you look at the ruins and remnants left behind by the early Greeks, you start to

wonder if they ever really were stories at all.

When English archaeologists Sir Arthur Evans found the palace of Knozys, he called upon

his knowledge of Greek myths to aid in his search.

Inane the ancient people who once lived there, Minoans, after King Minos, and then worked

for several years excavating a large palace at the site.

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