Ancient Egypt
Elements of its Cultural History

  by Sjef Willockx

 
 


A Visit to the Amun Temple of Karnak
 

An introduction to the largest surviving temple of ancient Egypt. With 90 pictures, one overall plan, and 9 detailed plans.

The quality of the pictures in this article (in pdf-format) has inevitably caused the file to be rather large. Since not everyone has access to broadband Internet, it has therefore been split into 8 parts, each approx. 800 kB in size.

Page 1 - 9
     Introduction, annotated overall plan, avenue of spinxes, 1st pylon, open court

Page 10 - 16
     Open court (continued), great hypostyle

Page 17 - 23
     Great hypostyle (continued), 3rd and 4th pylon, smaller hypostyle

Page 24 - 28
     Beyond the 6th pylon

Page 29 - 34
     The Court of the Middle Kingdom, the Akhmenu

Page 35 - 40
     The Back Temple, the inner enclosure wall

Page 41 - 47
     The inner enclosure wall (continued), the Sacred Lake. The Secondary Axis: 7th and 8th pylon

Page 48 - 53
     Secondary axis: 8th pylon (continued), 10th pylon, Bibliography

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