While in Crete Daedalus created the plan for the Minoan Palace of Knossos, one of the most important archaeological sites in Crete and Greece today. It was a magnificent architectural design and building, of 1,300 rooms, decorated with stunning frescoes and artifacts, saved until today. The sculpture of Ariadne in Knossos and many others in Elounda and Karia are also his.

King Minos and Daedalus had great understanding at first, but their relationships started deteriorating at some point; there are several versions explaining this sudden change, although the most common one is that Daedalus was the one who advised Princess Ariadne to give Theseus the thread that helped him come out from the infamous Labyrinth, after killing the Minotaur.

The Labyrinth was a maze built by Daedalus; King Minos wanted a building suitable to imprison the mythical monster Minotaur, and according to the myth, he used to imprison his enemies in the labyrinth, making sure that they would be killed by the monster.

Minos was infuriated when found out about the betrayal and imprisoned Daedalus and his son Icarus in the Labyrinth.

 Jupiter invokes the floodwaters, opening the waters of the sky and sea together, and water covers the entire earth and wipes out every living creature. When Jupiter sees that all life has been extinguished except for the ideal pious married couple—Deucalian ("son of forethought") and Pyrrha ("daughter of afterthought")—he sends the north wind to scatter the clouds and mist; he calms the waters and the floods subside.  

Talos resembled an enormous man whose body was made of bronze. He had a single vein of molten metal which gave him life, running from his neck to his ankles. A bronze peg in his ankle stopped the life-giving ichor from pouring out.

Talos’s task was to defend Crete from invaders, circling the island three times daily. You see, no traces of walls protecting cities have been found in Crete. Talos did not allow any enemy ships to approach, hurling massive rocks to sink the wooden ships of those who dared to threaten Crete.

The students, divided into groups, drew the island of Crete and made a black line around it. Then, in EdBlocks they programmed  Edison to circle their drawings  on the black line three times.
The children decided that Edison will not be hostile to the ships, like Talos, who burned them and threw stones at them. On the contrary, Edison will be friendly and when the robot meets a boat it will flash its lights and play Cretan music.

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