From the “Holy Grail” to the “Turin Shroud”, and from “Atlantis” to “El Dorado”, humans have always been searching for evidence that can turn myth into historical fact. The quest for such evidence, real or imaginary, is in itself the stuff that legendary adventures are made of.

The film follows Dr Alexander MacGillivray in his investigation surrounding the authenticity of three controversial artefacts on which the archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans based his influential vision of the Minoan civilization. Evans’ Minoans are considered as the first European civilisation and the fountainhead of modern Western culture. But MacGillivray’s research suggests that the very beginning of European history has been forged. How, by whom and why, is what we will explore in our film.

Tracing the fascinating stories surrounding the fake gold and ivory statuette of a snake goddess, the mysterious golden “Ring of King Minos”, and the reconstructed “tomb of the King of Knossos” , “Secrets of the Labyrinth” is an archaeological detective-story as well as an inquiry into the human need for both fact and fiction. A need that lies behind the popularity of conspiracy theories, Erich von Däniken and the “Da Vinci Code”.