Founded more than 3,900 years ago, karnak temple is located in northern Luxor and was part of Thebes, the capital of the Middle Kingdom and the New Kingdom, the center of worship for the sun god Amun, and the site of the largest temple in ancient Egypt. In general, there is only one pagoda gate in the temple, but there are 10 in Karnak, and each gatehouse has a corresponding column hall and courtyard. The scale is conceivable.
The first thing you see when you enter the temple is the Ram Yongdao, the god of rams, one of the polytheistic gods believed by the ancient Egyptians.
Ram Yongdao
The 8-meter-tall statue of Ramses II, below which is his favorite concubine Nefertari.
Statue of Ramses II
The most fascinating thing about the karnak temples is the beautiful patterns and hieroglyphs carved into the columns, walls and pedestals of the idols. This is the history of stone carvings that tells you a distant and glorious past.
Columns of the Karnak Temple
Spending half a day at the Karnak Temple still feels like a sloppy flower. There are many attractions in the world that are for viewing, but the Karnak Temple is for reading.
Columns of the Karnak Temple
The 29-meter-high obelisk records Queen Hatshepsut's admiration for her great father, the god Amun, in order to show that her succession to the throne was legitimate and blessed by the god Amun. This monument has gone through the vicissitudes of time and still stands majestically on the land of Egypt. There were originally two obelisks, one of which was cut off and placed by the holy lake.
obelisk
To the south of the walls of the Temple of Amun is the Holy Lake, which is used for purification sacrifices on major festivals. In a climate like Egypt, it is a miracle that the lake does not dry all year round.
Next to the holy lake is a broken obelisk, and it is precisely because of the fracture that you can appreciate the carvings on the inscriptions at close range, and perhaps everything in the world is predestined in the dark...
Broken obelisk
To be continued