Great Hypostyle Hall, Karnak Temple, Egypt
watercolour and crayon
©2024 Charlene Brown
The Karnak Temple is located in the ancient city of Thebes (now called Luxor) in Egypt. It is thought to be the largest temple complex ever constructed anywhere in the world.
The Hypostyle Hall was built by Pharaoh
Seti I and his son Rameses II. The columns represent the primeval papyrus
swamp in which Atum, a self-created deity, arose from the waters of Nun at the
beginning of creation.
The Karnak Temple was one of the many
Eqyptian archaeological sites we visited as part of the University of Victoria
travel study program in 2008. I wrote
about several of these fantastic places when I started this blog the following
year, but for some reason the only mention of Karnak was in this blog post and it was pretty brief.
