Nectanebo built a large enclosure wall around the site along with an additional temple. He also began construction of a new pylon at Karnak at the western entrance (although he wasn’t able to ...

The farther back one walks in the Temple of Amun-Re, the older the structures become, so this initial Great Court is one of the more recent constructions. The First Pylon at Karnak Temple.

Across the Levant in the 15th century B.C., cities were rising up against freshly-installed pharaoh Thutmose III. It would be ...

Statues are located in the southern side of the Karnak Temple first courtyard ... After four of the statues located behind the first pylon in the temple were moved to Cairo’s Tahrir Square ...

The first pylon, or main entrance ... Amenhotep III’s mortuary temple would have rivaled the great Karnak Temple across the river, but that complex was added to and built up over a period ...

Its many temples, chapels, pylons, and shrines—and the artifacts ... dedicated to the principal god of the Theban Triad. Today, the Karnak Temple Complex is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and ...

Most New Kingdom commemorative temples featured chambers separated by monumental gateways (pylons), like those that can still be seen at Luxor and Karnak. Hatshepsut’s temple, on the other hand ...

Thousands of Egyptian visitors and tourists flocked to the Karnak Temple area in Luxor to witness ... penetrating the entrances of the pylons from the sixth to the first, as well as the Great ...