Temple of Karnak
The Karnak Temple is located in the northern part of the Luxor region of Qena Governorate in Egypt. It is located between latitude 25 ° and 43.5 ° north, and longitude 32 ° 36 '45 to the east. Its average height is about 80 meters above sea level. The temple is a public complex, characterized by huge space, and houses at least ten temples, surrounded by a huge wall known as the Temenos. Features of Karnak Temple Karnak Temple contains a large mix of decaying temples, chapels, towers and other buildings. It was built in the reign of Senusert I in the Middle Kingdom and continued until the Ptolemaic era. This temple still stands to this day to show that era of time, and there is this temple in the open air, and is the second largest old religious site valuable world, after the Temple of Wat Angkor in Cambodia, as it is the second most historic site Ertajh people in Egypt after the pyramids of Giza, near Cairo, and the temple is composed of four main parts, part only one visitors can see a Precinct of Amun P, and the other parts that can not be seen by visitors is the outpost of death, and the outpost of Montu, the Temple of the dismantling of Amenhotep IV, contains death station a few few small temples and shrines, which is very old. The temple of Karnak from other temples has a great length of time in terms of the period of use, has contributed about thirty people from the Pharaohs in the construction, which is why it contributed to the size, complexity and diversity, and there are many individual features that distinguish them from others It contains a goddess consisting of a group of identical and multiple, and it contained a temple built by Amenhotep IV known as Akhenaten, but was preserved in an early period of its construction, and also contained the column hall at the Amon Ra station, the area of this hall 5000 square meters, the 134 contains a huge column arranged in a row 16, with a The length of 122 columns is approximately 10 meters. The other 12 columns are 21 meters high and more than three meters in diameter. These columns have a threshold of about 70 tons. They were raised using winches. Some are believed to have been raised using large staircases constructed of sand The mud and brick or stone, and the history of the temple dates back to 2050 BC, the sanctuary was expanded successively by many of the kings of the era of the modern state and beyond.
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