(A)mazing ruins in Digi-World
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We are in episode 9 of the Digimon Adventures.
Here we find a maze inside an ancient building, with a ziggurat-like façade, further getting ruined after a battle by the end of the episode...
ruins of ... -we only see the façade, ziggurat-style with stairway to top and arched entrance inside a fake-squared gate, inside has a labyrinth and the whole theme of the episode (complete of the anthagonist being a centaur-like Digimon aka Kentaumon) is the greek myth of Theseus and the minotaur (yea, not a centaur, that didn't [a]maze me either). Thus, the architectural reference is clearly to the palace of Minos(?), which was a legend probably built upon the fact that actual palaces associated to the the Minoan(?) 'culture' are found with many different chambers revolving in a not-necessarily-symmetrical way around a not-necessarily-central area and seemed to foreigner like true labyrinths. An example, partially still in place, is the famous Palace of Cnossos in Crete.
Since we're talking about architectures and what archaeologists can reconstruct of them (or cannot), one interesting tip to remember is that usually we find the walls' foundations and thus the planimetry(?) can almost easily be guessed, but this holds true only for the ground floor -while without other sources (paintings or written descriptions) the higher floors' structure and decorations are mostly hypotheses.
So long for another piece of archaeology in the Digimon series!