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Through the Labyrinth

Designs and Meanings over 5,000 Years

by Hermann Kern

The English edition of Kern's monumental catalogue of labyrinths, first published in German in 1982. It documents more than a thousand examples from rock carvings and coins to church pavements and turf mazes and established the modern definition of the labyrinth.

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