Tour in the amazing Karnak Temple Complex

Tour in the amazing Karnak Temple Complex

It is a wonderful complex of beautiful and incomparable temples. Karnak includes the temple of the God Amun, his wife, the goddess Mutt, and her son, the God Kons.

Construction of the temple began during the Middle Kingdom (around 2000 BC). In the era of the New Kingdom, where King Tutankhamun and King Ramses 2 belonged, a luxurious temple worthy of the greatness of the huge Egyptian Empire was built on the ruins of this temple.

Each king added something new to the temple. From closeness to the gods, the desire for immortality, and to gain great fame among the people.

1- The Great Temple of Amunra

The temple consists of Mihrab, which is located on the Far East side. This niche was prepared to store statues of God Amen and his family. This place is known as a "holy place" surrounded by darkness. It is then followed by an open courtyard bathed in sunlight and this courtyard ends with a large building, an entrance between the 2 towers.

The group of buildings of this temple was numerous and had a final shape similar to the English letter T, but it is located diagonally on one of its sides. The letter is defined by 10 buildings and also includes many courtyards. In front of the temple is a large square, in which there is a raised platform in the center, which was once a berth for the temple's ships, because the Nile flows nearby.

The 1st Sethi erected 2 obelisks on it, but 1 of them still remains in its place, and from there it should be noted that Ramses 2 is a Sphinx-shaped statue of the king himself under the chin of each. This path is what they call the "way of the Ram."”

2- Temple of Amun

It is a spacious courtyard lined with papyrus-shaped columns on both sides. (In the past, in the middle there was the "Taharqagosq", which was built by the king of the 25th dynasty "Taharqa", composed of 10 graceful pillars, and 1 of the pillars still stands in its place.))

In the northwest corner of this courtyard there are also 19 compartments prepared to house the sacred ships of the Teban Triad, built by the 1st Seti of the 3 dynasties. The walls of these compartments were decorated with reliefs representing sacred ships.

3- Temple of "Ramses 3" in Karnak

It was built by Ramses 3rd to house the sacred ship, and this temple is considered a model of a complete Egyptian temple. It starts with a large building decorated outside by 2 magnificent statues of the king. From the inside, it is followed by an open courtyard, adjacent to the east and west to the gates (multiple weeping). The king appears on the pillar in the form of Osiris.

On the walls are decorated with inscriptions representing the king in different positions before the "God Amun"."Then we have a vestibule with 2 rows of rows. The first of these columns consists of columns in which the statue of "Osyrian" is attached in the style of a courtyard statue, and the 2nd column consists of 4 columns in the shape of a plant. Papyrus This vestibule leads us to the hypostyle hall, which leads to 3 rooms to house the sacred ship of theban Triad. Next to it are several dark rooms, which were used for worship purposes.

It was decorated with 2 large statues standing in front of this building of Ramses 2. Only the statue on the right remains, and next to the building there is a hall of pillars, which reveals the image of the refined grandeur that the art of architecture reached in the country of Egypt. It is like a forest of pillars representing the papyrus plant, covering an area of land spanning 6000 square meters. It contains 134 columns, each of which is 3.37 meters in diameter, the height of the side column is 13 meters, the height of the central column is about 21 meters, and the columns are all in the form of papyrus stems. The high pillars are topped with capitals shaped like blooming papyrus flowers. As for the size of the crown, it was said that it could accommodate more than 10 people standing on it. As for the short pillars, their capitals also resemble closed buds of papyrus flowers.

This hall was covered with huge stone blocks. Some of them are still installed. As for the inscriptions on these pillars and the walls behind them, they are very magnificent and beautiful. Some of its colors are still bright, and it represents King Sethi and his son, Ramses 2, making sacrifices to different gods. About the scene carved on the walls of this lobby from the outside can be reached by getting out of one of the side doors - they are pictures representing both King Sethi and his son Ramses II in various wars with the enemies of Egypt, the Hittites and the Libyans.

4- Temple of Consu

   It was built in 1198 BC by Ramses 20, the 2nd king of the 3rd dynasty. Then his son Ramses 4 added to it after him, and Ramses M.The last king of the 20 dynasties. The temple consists of a building carved by the priest "Bi Najm", who is considered the 21st king of the 8th dynasty. Following it is a courtyard with columns in the shape of papyrus, the capital of which also has the shape of a flower bud of papyrus. This is followed by a vestibule with 12 columns leading to the hypostyle hall, on its walls are displayed inscriptions from the time of "Ramses XI", the 20th king of the 10th dynasty, and his patron, "Herihor". Finally, we reach the sacred boat cabin of Khonsu and the dark niches around it. As a whole, it consists of "Mihrab", or "the Most Holy Place", and contains inscriptions and scenes from the era of "Ramses 4th". Behind the "Mihrab" is a small courtyard with 4 pillars, connected to which are 7 small rooms of the era of "Ramses III" and "IV". Each. The color of the scene in the right 2 rooms is still bright today. The next room was designated for them to worship Osiris, who saw Isis and Nephsis lying in his bed crying on him.

The verticality of the Sun to Jerusalem is the 2nd most important event after the verticality to the Abu Simbel Temple, like the influence of the Karnak Temple.

This reveals the ability of the Pharaohs to calculate astronomical geometric calculations of the movement of the Earth around the Sun and build buildings that bear these debts.

He noticed that the sun is simultaneously perpendicular to Deir el-Bahari and Qasr Qarun (12/21).

Next to him.

The Sun goes through

The sun crosses the Karnak Temple 1 times a year, especially on the winter solstice day - 12/21, that is, with the beginning of the winter season.