Karnak and its temples .. The Karnak Temple Complex .. Part ( 1 )

• About a mile and a half from of Luxor lies the vast aggregate of sacred buildings which we know as Karnak .

• The great temple of Amûn, which is the centre of the whole huge complex, is by far the largest temple in Egypt, or in the world, that is not to say that it is the finest temple in Egypt, still less that it is, as it has been called, " the typical temple of the Empire ", typical is exactly what Karnak is not .

• Architecturally it is a mixture of all types and times; and it is not as an architectural whole that it is supremely interesting, but as a great historical document in stone, in which the course of Egyptian history, with its ups and downs, can be traced more or less distinctly over a period of almost 2,000 years of construction, destruction, renovation, and expansion, beginning with The Middle Kingdom ( 2000 B.C. ) and ending with Ptolemy XI .

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