The English writer Amelia Edwards, who traveled through Egypt in the 1870s, described Karnak as "a place ... a sense of the vastness of the Great Hypostyle Hall is to walk through it yourself.

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The English writer Amelia Edwards, who traveled through Egypt in the 1870s, described Karnak as "a place ... a sense of the vastness of the Great Hypostyle Hall is to walk through it yourself.