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It represents the first engineer Daedalus: According to Greek mythology, the Knossos palace was designed by famed architect Daedalus with such complexity that no one placed in it could ever find its exit.

King Minos who commissioned the palace then kept the architect prisoner to ensure that he would not reveal the palace plan to anyone.

Daedalus, who was a great inventor, built two sets of wings so he and his son Ikarus could fly off the island, and so they did. On their way out, Daedalus warned his son not to fly too close to the sun because the wax that held the wings together would melt. In a tragic turn of events, during their escape Ikarus, young and impulsive as he was, flew higher and higher until the sun rays dismantled his wings and the young boy fell to his death in the Aegean Sea.