Karnak Temple
During the time of the pharaohs of the New Kingdom, Egypt’s capital was Luxor, where the Karnak Temple is now. This ancient Egyptian temple wasn’t always called Karnak. It used to be called the northern House of god Amun, just like the Southern House of god Amun at the Temple of Luxor. The city of Palaces, also known as Luxor, used to be called Thebes.
Description of Karnak Temple

The main parts of the complex are the Montu Temple Enclosure, the Amun Temple Enclosure with the Temple of Khonsu, and the Mut Temple Enclosure. Each one is separated from the other by a wall. The main enclosure, dedicated to Amun, has a series of towers that divide it into open courtyards with sculptures and obelisks. Even though there were a few holes in the ceiling of the vast hypostyle hall, the room was still dark. In the 18th century, the pharaohs built obelisks where the two sides of the enclosure met.
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Statue of Amun-Re in Karnak Temple.

In the middle of Karnak’s huge Amun enclosure is the god himself, whose temple looks like a trapeze. The buildings inside the chamber are set up along east-west and north-south lines. Around these two axes and the main temple are more temples, chapels, and a holy lake.
The quay that leads to the Nile banks and the Amun enclosure is in front of the first tower. The current layout, which includes a row of sphinxes with rams’ heads and is dedicated to a pharaoh named Pinedjem I, is from after the repairs of Egypt’s Twenty-fifth Dynasty. The triple chapel boat Seti I made to honor Amun, Mut, and Khonsu can be seen in the courtyard next to it. On the south side of the square, there is a shrine for the holy boats of Ramesses III.
Giant statues of Ramesses II stand in front of the second tower, which makes it look like Horemheb made it. The part of the complex that stands out the most is the hypostyle chamber, which has columns that look like papyrus. Amenhotep III built the third tower, but Seti I and Ramesses II decorated the entrance. A temple on this tower honors the Senusret I holiday of Thirst.
Also, Thutmose I and Thutmose III were honored by four obelisks at the entrance, but only one is still there today. Between the towers is the oldest part of the temple, built between the Fourth and Fifth Dynasties of Egypt. One of the rooms in the temple is called the “botanical garden” because it has many carvings of plants, birds, and strange animals. This room is in the central courtyard, past the sixth tower.
The southern axis connected to the original axis got four more pylons. Around the turn of the century, many sculptures were found secretly on the 7th tower, often called the “locked courtyard.” Horemheb is in charge of the ninth and tenth pillars in this case. Many of Akhenaten’s “Talatat,” or masonry blocks, were used to build the towers.
The Temple of Montu in Karnak Temple.
This one is the least solid of the three because it is the smallest. It has a holy lake and several temples honoring the gods Khepri (Kheper) and Maat. To the north of the main temple is a dock that leads to the Nile and an avenue of sphinxes with human heads.
Temple of Mut In Karnak Temple
in Egypt: In the southern sector, you can find the temple of Mut, which is surrounded by a crescent-shaped lake, as well as a temple to Khonsu from the Eighteenth Dynasty and a temple to Ramesses III (Medinet Habu). Amenhotep III built the temple of Mut, but Ramesses III ordered a satellite building to hold the procession’s holy boats and any other heavenly ships that might have entered the Lady of Thebes’ garden.
Karnak temple is different from most other Egyptian temples and monuments because it was built and used at an additional time than most. During the Middle Kingdom, architects started a tradition of building temples that would last until the Ptolemaic era. About thirty pharaohs worked on the buildings, which is why they are so big, different, and complicated.
There aren’t many genuinely unique things at Karnak, but the size and amount of things there are impressive. Much later in Egyptian history, the gods in the pictures were some of the first to be worshipped. Amenhotep IV (Akhenaton), the pharaoh who moved his court and religious center away from Thebes and started a monotheistic religion nearby, also built an early temple that has since been destroyed. Also, it shows how other cultures used ancient Egyptian temples for their religious purposes.
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