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6 unusual facts about Karnak


Agnès Cabrol

For the Franco-Egyptian Centre for the Study of Karnak (CFEETK), at Karnak she collected epigraphic data and made numerous archaeological observations.

Atenism

In addition to constructing a new capital in honor of Aten, Akhenaten also oversaw the construction of some of the most massive temple complexes in ancient Egypt, including one at Karnak and one at Thebes, close to the old temple of Amun.

Gaston Maspero

On October 3 that year an earthquake at Karnak collapsed 11 columns and left the main hall in ruins.

Nicolas Grimal

Since 1990, he has been the scientific director of the Franco-Egyptian Centre for study of the temples of Karnak.

Some Words with a Mummy

Allamistakeo then tells the men of a "inferior" palace in Charnac, "He would not pretend to assert that even fifty or sixty of the Doctor's Capitols might have been built within these walls, but he was by no means sure that two or three hundred of them might not have been squeezed in with some trouble." The narrator then asks Allamistakeo what he thinks about railroads.

The Temple Downtown

The two entrance doorways, on the elaborate east and north facades, were inspired by the Bab el’Adb Gate, also known as the Gateway of Ptolemy III and Ptolemy IV, at the Karnak Temple Complex.


Abdelfattah al-Banna

He was engaged in studying the deterioration phenomena, their effective factors and treatments by the consolidation techniques of Karnak Temple at Luxor.

Betsy Bryan

Betsy Morrell Bryan (born 1949) is an American Egyptologist who is leading a team that is excavating the Precinct of Mut complex in Karnak, at Luxor in Upper Egypt.

Bubastite Portal

Jean-François Champollion visited Karnak in 1828, six years after his publication of the Rosetta Stone translation.

Giovanni Battista Belzoni

He also expanded his investigations to the great temple of Edfu, visited Elephantine and Philae, cleared the great temple at Abu Simbel of sand (1817), made excavations at Karnak, and opened up the sepulchre of Seti I (still sometimes known as "Belzoni's Tomb").


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