Karnak Temple |
Karnak Temple |
Karnak sound and light show schedule |
First Pylon, Temple of Karnak, during the Sound and Light show |
Ram-Headed Sphinx, Karnak Temple |
Avenue of the Ram-Headed Sphinxes, Karnak |
Ram-Headed Sphinxes and the First Pylon |
Colonnade of the Great Court |
Sphinx attributed to Tutankhamun, Great Court |
Colossal Ramses II, Great Court |
Pillar of the Kiosk of Taharka (25th Dynasty) |
Second Pylon of Horemheb (18th Dyn) |
Second Pylon of Horemheb (18th Dyn) |
Great Hypostyle Hall of Karnak |
Obelisk of Hatshepsut and Obelisk of Thutmosis I |
Obelisk of Thutmosis I, west face |
Obelisk of Thutmosis I, west face |
Amenhotep III's scarab beetle dedicated to Aten |
Top of Hatshepsut's fallen obelisk |
Karnak Temple across the Sacred Lake |
Middle Kingdom pharoahs, Cachette Court |
Middle Kingdom pharoahs, Cachette Court |
Middle Kingdom pharoahs, Cachette Court |
Middle Kingdom pharoahs, Cachette Court |
Middle Kingdom pharoahs, Cachette Court |
Luxor Caleche |
Luxor Caleche |
Ram-Headed Sphinx |
Avenue of the Ram-Headed Sphinxes |
Layout of the Temple of Karnak |
First Pylon, unfinished, built by Nectanebo I (30th Dynasty) |
The unfinished First Pylon, Karnak |
Sphinx attributed to Tutankhamun |
Sphinx attributed to Tutankhamun, Great Court, Karnak |
Sphinx attributed to Tutankhamun |
Sphinx attributed to Tutankhamun |
First Pylon, Karnak |
First Pylon, Karnak |
First Pylon, Karnak |
First Pylon, Karnak |
Processional Shrine of Ramses III, Karnak |
Pharoah Ramses III smiting his enemies, Processional Shrine of Ramses III, Karnak |
Ramses III |
First Pylon and Great Court, Karnak |
Pillar of Taharka in shadow |
Great Hypostyle Hall with rays of early morning sun |
Great Hypostyle Hall, completed by Seti I and added to by Ramses II |
Great Hypostyle Hall contains 134 massive pillars |
Great Hypostyle Hall |
The pillars of the Hypostyle Hall were once completed painted |
Cartouches of Seti I, King of Upper and Lower Egypt |
Min, god of fertility |
Min, god of fertility, recognizable as 1 armed god with erect phallus |
Great Hypostyle Hall |
"King of Upper and Lowe Egypt" title prior to the "prenomen" the first of the pharoah's 2 names |
King of Upper and Lower Egypt and Ankh, the Key of Life |
Me, Karnak Temple |
Great Hypostyle Hall |
Ramses II with Thoth, god of wisdom and Horus, god of the sky |
Amun and Mut |
Amun with some blue paint remaining and Ramses II |
Great Hypostyle Hall |
Horus, Mut, Ramses II, Maat, Thoth |
Min, god of fertility |
Amun, Ramses II and the Tree of Life |
Ramses II before the Tree of Life |
Amun and Mut |
Great Hypostyle Hall |
Great Hypostyle Hall |
Great Hypostyle Hall |
Obelisk of Thutmosis I, Karnak |
Great Hypostyle Hall from the east |
Obelisk of Thutmosis I, east face |
Obelisk of Thutmosis I |
Obelisk of Thutmosis I |
Obelisk of Hatshepsut, east and south face |
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Obelisk of Hatshepsut, east face |
Cartouche of Hatshepsut |
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Papyrus Column (floral order) |
Obelisk of Thutmosis I |
Temple of Karnak |
Obelisk of Hatshepsut, south face |
Fallen statue, Karnak |
Temple of Karnak |
Temple of Karnak |
Temple of Karnak, Obelisk of Hatshepsut |
Temple of Karnak |
Temple of Karnak |
Fallen Obelisk of Hatshepsut |
Fallen Obelisk of Hatshepsut |
Temple of Karnak |
Temple lf Karnak, Great Hypostyle Hall and Obelisk of Thutmosis I |
The Eighth Pylon and the ruins south of the main temple |
The Eighth Pylon |
Amenhotep III's scarab beetle dedicated to Aten |
Amenhotep III's scarab beetle dedicated to Aten |
Middle Kingdom pharoah, Cachette Court |
Middle Kingdom pharoahs, Cachette Court |
Middle Kingdom pharoah, Cachette Court |
Remains of Colossus of Thutmosis III, Seventh Pylon |
Seventh Pylon - Thutmosis III smiting the enemies of Egypt |
Thutmosis III smiting the enemies of Egypt, ca 1450 BC |
Temple of Karnak |
Great Hypostyle Hall |
Obelisk of Thutmosis I, south face |
Obelisk of Thutmosis I, south face |
Obelisk of Thutmosis I, duck and sun disk = "Son of Ra" prior to the Nomen, the pharoah's 2nd name |
Great Hypostyle Hall |
Obelisk of Thutmosis I, south and east faces |
Remains of an obelisk on the north side of the Temple of Karnak |
Obelisk base |
Obelisk base with cartouche of Thutmosis III |
Temple of Karnak |
Deserted northern side of Karnak Temple |
East face of the Third Pylon |
Chariot, Third Pylon |
Min, god of fertility |
Great Hypostyle Hall |
Roy in the Great Hypostyle Hall |
Roy in the Great Hypostyle Hall |
Cartouche of Ramses II |
Debbie as Queen of Upper and Lower Egypt |
Great Hypostyle Hall |
Great Hypostyle Hall |
Great Hypostyle Hall |
Great Hypostyle Hall |
Great Hypostyle Hall |
Cartouche of Ramses II, Great Hypostyle Hall |
Great Hypostyle Hall |
Debbie, Great Hypostyle Hall |
Debbie, Great Hypostyle Hall |
Ankh, the Key of Life, reprenting the Nile, the Delta, and the east and west banks |
Ramses II, Great Court, Karnak |
Ramses II, Great Court, Karnak |
Ramses II, Great Court, Karnak |
Nefertari, wife of Ramses II |
Great Court and First Pylon, Karnak |
Great Court and First Pylon, Karnak |
Column of the Kiosk of Taharka |
Ramses III before his Processional Shrine, Great Court |
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Processional Shrine of Ramses III |
Osiride columns of Ramses III |
Osiride column of Ramses III |
Osiride columns of Ramses III, Karnak |
Osiride columns of Ramses III, Karnak |
Processional Shrine of Ramses III and the Pillar of Taharka |
Osiride column of Ramses III |
Processional Shrine of Seti I dedicated to the Theban triade Amun, Mut and Khons, Great Court |
First Pylon |
First Pylon, Karnak Temple |
Avenue of the Rams-Headed Sphinxes, Karnak |
Rams-Headed Sphinx |
Rams-Headed Sphinx |
Rams-Headed Sphinx with Ramses II |
Avenue of the Rams-Headed Sphinxes |
Rams-Headed Sphinx |
Tourist shops outside Karnak Temple |
The Circus is in town |