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Karnak is a temple complex in
Egypt and also a village located near Luxor. The place Karnak is
described as a conglomeration of chapels, pylons, old building
and temples all ruined. Actually Karnak is considered as open
museum in Egypt where the tourists can learn and discover
Ipet-isut, it was for the ancient Egyptian one of the main place
of worship the Theban Triad. The temple complex is surrounded
partly from the village el-Karnak which is quite modern. Karnak
is one of place which is most visited in Egypt as historical
area. Very famous and well known is the temple of Karnak with
its one hundred and thirty four massive columns which are
arranged in sixteen arrows in the Hypostyle Hall. Karnak is
mainly the history of Thebes; it seems that the city Karnak had
no significance until the Eleventh Dynasty. Amun was the head of
Karnak and the local god of Thebes. Amun is also sometimes
called Amen. For the Egyptian Amen means “hidden god” or
“hidden”. Amun was identified with the Goose and Ram. In
medivial Europe the exact location of Thbes was unknown even
though Strabo and Herodotus gave the exact place where to find
Thebes. In 1589 the Karnak temple complex was first described by
an unknown Venetian. It was only in 1668 that Karnak was
attested as a village and temple complex by Protais and Charles
François d’Orleans who were two capuchin missionary. |
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