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Photos in this gallery include the whole of Karnak itself, the open air museum, temples of Khonsu and Ptah and the Sound and Light Show night images.
Karnak Enclosure EG053552jhp Temple Karnak Egypt enclosure hypostyle hall obelisks storage blocks salvage scrambled through by my custodian taking me from the Open Air Museum to the Temple of Ptah which is located inside the north enclosure wall of the Karnak Complex at Luxor on the East Bank of the River Nile. This is one of several large areas which resemble a graveyard of the 'skeletons' of this huge religious complex on the East Bank of the Nile at Luxor and shows how much has yet to be restored, if ever. Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Luxor, River, Nile, east, Bank, Thebes, Waset, Ipetisut, Karnak, Temple, hypostyle, hall, obelisks, scaffolding, guided, landscape, history, archaeology, Egyptology, construction, restoration, hieroglyphics, blocks, sandstone, granite, discarded, abandoned, storage, numbered
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Photographer: Jim Henderson
Collection: Karnak Temple
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Karnak Enclosure EG053552jhp
Upload Date: 2005-04-20 09:26:03
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Temple Karnak Egypt enclosure hypostyle hall obelisks storage blocks salvage

scrambled through by my custodian taking me from the Open Air Museum to the Temple of Ptah which is located inside the north enclosure wall of the Karnak Complex at Luxor on the East Bank of the River Nile. This is one of several large areas which resemble a graveyard of the 'skeletons' of this huge religious complex on the East Bank of the Nile at Luxor and shows how much has yet to be restored, if ever.
Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Luxor, River, Nile, east, Bank, Thebes, Waset, Ipetisut, Karnak, Temple, hypostyle, hall, obelisks, scaffolding, guided, landscape, history, archaeology, Egyptology, construction, restoration, hieroglyphics, blocks, sandstone, granite, discarded, abandoned, storage, numbered