Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The precinct is by far the largest of these and the only one that is open to the general public. The temple complex is dedicated to the principal god of the Theban Triad, Amun, in the form of Amun-Re. The site occupies some 250,000 m 2 and contains many structures and monuments. The main temple itself, the Temple of Amun, covers some 61 acres.
Entrance to the Great Hypostyle Hall The Great Hypostyle Hall of Karnak. The Great Hypostyle Hall is located within the Karnak Temple Complex, in the Precinct of Amon-Re. It is one of the most visited monuments of Ancient Egypt. The structure was built around the 19th Egyptian Dynasty (c. 1290 –1224 BC). [1]
Luxor Temple, the final destination of the barque of Amun-Re during the Opet festival. The Opet Festival (Ancient Egyptian: ḥb nfr n jpt, "beautiful festival of Opet") [citation needed] was an annual ancient Egyptian festival celebrated in Thebes (Luxor), especially in the New Kingdom and later periods, during the second month of the season of Akhet, the flooding of the Nile.
Entrance to the Temple of Khonsu (Gateway of Ptolemy III) The Temple of Khonsu is an ancient Egyptian temple. It is located within the large Precinct of Amun-Re at Karnak, in Luxor, Egypt. [1] The edifice is an example of an almost complete New Kingdom temple, and was originally constructed by Ramesses III on the site of an earlier temple. [2]
The shrine was originally built within a large temple dedicated to Amun-Re. [3] It appears to have been constructed at the same time as the rest of the temple. [4] The shrine has four outer walls engraved with images of Taharqa interacting with various gods. [4]
In the entrance hall of her Red Chapel, there is a narrow decorative strip stretching across the entire north wall with symbols of the Rekhyt who, among other things, worship Hatshepsut as "praising their mistress" and in the same posture in the direction of the sanctuary, worship Amun-Re. This has various interpretations in Egyptology.
The Botanical garden of Thutmose III (French: Jardin botanique de Thoutmôsis III) is found in the temple of Amun-Re, and was constructed during the New Kingdom by Thutmose III. This structure is unique from other architecture found during this time.
His throne name, Neferkare Setepenre, means "Beautiful Is The Soul of Re, Chosen of Re." [5] Ramesses IX is believed to be the son of Mentuherkhepeshef, a son of Ramesses III, since Mentuherkhopshef's wife, the lady Takhat bears the prominent title of King's Mother on the walls of tomb KV10, which she usurped and reused in the late 20th Dynasty ...