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The Karnak temple complex, universally known only as Karnak, describes a vast conglomeration of ruined temples, chapels, pylons and other buildings. It is located near Luxor in Egypt.
This was ancient Egyptian Ipet-isut ("The Most Selected of Places"), the main place of worship of the Theban Triad with Amun as its head, in the monumental city of Thebes. The complex retrieves its current name from the nearby and partly surrounding modern village of el-Karnak, some 2.5km north of Luxor.
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Egyptlogy is something I think most people find interesting, and within that interest the mystery of the Ancient Egyptian beliefs and rituals is even more interesting. Karnak is a temple situated along the Nile River in Egypt. I have never had the plasure of entering this magnificent structure, but from what a friend has explained to me through his photos the endless roaws of massive columns, covered in hiroglyphs, telling stories of ancient times, the paint still there on the walls is something that never leaves the memory. All this centralised by a "never-drying" dam in the middle tops it of, as the idea of a dam out in the middle of the desert that has not been dry for thousands of years is not completely comprehensible to me. The mind can only imagine the wonders that occured in this magestic location since the day it was erected.
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