A maze, also known as a labyrinth, as is a set of passages (with impermeable walls). The goal of the maze is to start at one given point and find a path through the passages that reaches a second given point.
The back of a clay accounting tablet from Pylos, Greece is illustrated above (Wolfram 2002, p. 43).
Legend has it that it was the plan for the labyrinth housing the minotaur in the
palace at Knossos, Crete, and that it was designed by Daedalus. It is also said that
it was a logo for the city of Troy-or perhaps the plan of some of its walls (Wolfram
2002, p. 873).
The above pattern (in either its square or rounded form) has appeared with remarkably little variation in a large variety of places all over the world-from Cretan coins, to graffiti at Pompeii, to the floor of the cathedral at Chartres, to carvings in Peru, to logos for aboriginal tribes. For probably three thousand years, it has been the single most common design used for mazes (Wolfram 2003, p. 873).
