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Model of the Precinct of Amun-Re, Karnak (photo: Rémih, CC: BY-SA 3.0) The main temple of Amun-Re had two axes—one that went north/south and the other that extended east/west. The southern axis continued towards the temple of Luxor and was connected by an avenue of ram-headed sphinxes.
The massive temple complex of Karnak was the principal religious center of the god Amun-Re in Thebes during the New Kingdom (which lasted from 1550 until 1070 B.C.E.). The complex remains one of the largest religious complexes in the world.
Archaeologists have excavated the remains of a sprawling temple complex dedicated to the god Amun at the Sudanese site of Dangeil, shown in this aerial view.
27 maj 2024 · Represented as a ram or a human with a ram‘s head, Amun was associated with the life-giving power of the sun and the generative forces of creation. His primary cult center was at Karnak in Thebes, but by the Late Period (664-332 BC), temples to Amun had been established throughout Egypt and beyond.
The Precinct of Amun-Re, located near Luxor, Egypt, is one of the four main temple enclosures that make up the immense Karnak Temple Complex. The precinct is by far the largest of these and the only one that is open to the general public. The temple complex is dedicated to the principal god of the Theban Triad, Amun, in the form of Amun-Re.
20 maj 2021 · The Great Temple of Amun is the central temple of the huge Temples of Karnak complex and was the religious epicenter of Theban life. This house of the gods was built on a giant scale and today remains one of Ancient Egypt's most ambitious examples of Pharaonic era engineering and architecture.
This centralized and strategic location of the Central Hall inside the temples implies an important role played inside the temple either during the religious festivals celebrated inside the temples or during the daily offering rituals.
