The Temple of Amun-Ra gained acclaim for its expansive Hypostyle Hall constructed during the reign of Seti I.

The temple of Amun-Ra is particularly famous for the vast Hypostyle Hall constructed during the reign of King Seti I. Ptolemaic rulers and Copts altered parts of the complex for their own use.

Thousands visited Luxor's Karnak Temple to witness the sun align with its main axis, marking winter's start on December 21.

A veritable forest in stone, the hall was filled with 134 papyrus columns, the centre 12 being larger (some being 21 m or 69 ft tall) and with open capitals, the remaining 122 along the sides smaller ...

After Egypt’s 1952 revolution, President Gamal Abdel Nasser embraced plans for the Aswan High Dam, an earth-fill embankment 111 metres high and 3.5 kilometres long. Begun in 1960 with Soviet ...

Obelisks over Karnak Two of three obelisks at the Temple of Amun at Karnak Temple Complex tower behind the Great Hypostyle Hall. The obelisk of Thutmose I (r. circa 1504-1493 B.C.) is on the right ...

Team of restorers and archaeologists of the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt completed the restoration work of the chapel of the god Amun-Ra. This is one of the seven chapels in the Temple of ...

CAIRO, EGYPT— Ahram Online reports that the 3,000-year-old tomb of Panehsy, a steward of the Amun Temple in Karnak, and a collection of smaller tomb chapels have been discovered in the Saqqara ...

95 percent of the columns of the Great Hypostyle Hall Karnak Temples have been completed, bringing back the original engravings and colours of its ancient Egyptian inscriptions.