Temple of KarnakThe Temple of Karnak, the largest temple built in the ancient world and the most important temples in area of Luxor, a temple dedicated to the god Amon, who began the Pharaoh Seti the First built and completed by Ramses II, in addition to temples, which continued to built up to the first century BC, an area of around 60 acres and continued to build what it of 1500 and named after the Islamic conquest .. Where Karnak means fort or fortified placeRunning the Temple of Karnak, the so-called village strongholds in the northern part of the city of Thebes (Luxor), and returns the famous Karnak to being in fact a group of temples, many built from the family of the 11 around year 2134 BC. M, when she was a good center for the religion of the Egyptian These temples surrounded by walls of brick connected to each other through the corridors guarded by statues of two rows are stacked on the Sphinx.The area of the Temple of Amun, 140 square meters, is equipped with a huge hall with the roof of a mobile column of 122, up more than 21 meters and lined up in 9 rows, this is not the reliefs on the columns and the giant gates, and obelisks
Has been the construction of the temple to be a home "for the holy trinity of good." This trinity is composed of the god "Amun" (The meaning of his name "Hidden"), and his "death" of the mother, and son of God "Khun Sue" the god of the moon, which reflects the sky. The official is based in the Temple of Karnak, and then saw them to pay tribute to another temple in a suburb of "good" old gods to rest for a period of time, so they built the King, "Amenhotep III," this temple in Luxor. It was said that he had built on the ruins of an old house from the houses of worship
.King has established a "City I" Mslten it .. One of them still remain in place, and extends them to the front edifice, two rows of statues erected "Ramses II" in the form of "Sphinx", each having a ram head and the body of a lion. It is noted that under the chin, each a statue of the king himself. This is the way which they call "the road of rams." It is also noted that most construction has been in the era of the Eighteenth Dynasty, in the era of kings "Amenhotep II", and "Amenhotep III" in particular. However, modified, and expansions in the era of the Nineteenth Dynasty, in the reign of King "Ramses II" in particular. There are also in the northwest corner of the courtyard three booths, prepared to accommodate ships of the Holy Trinity of "good", built by the King, "City I" of the kings of the Nineteenth Dynasty, has decorated the walls of these chapels decorated with relief representing the sacred vesselsAnd thus became the Temple of Amun at Karnak is a palace official, also became the Temple of Luxor, which is spending his own house with his family a period of rest and recuperation in the specific date of each year, the temple itself is located on the Corniche Road in front of the Nile. In the middle of the wall of the temple almost, there is a small door leading into the temple
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