Karnak

[kahr-nak]

noun

1. a village in E Egypt, on the Nile: the northern part of the ruins of ancient Thebes.

Karnak

/ ˈkɑːnæk /

noun

1. a village in E Egypt, on the Nile: site of the N part of the ruins of ancient Thebes

Example Sentences

But as luck would have it, his friend Marika Dalley Snider, an architectural historian at the University of Memphis, was working at the time on a digital reconstruction of the Karnak Temple in Egypt.

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The study also suggests that changes in the Nile's behaviour and landscape might have influenced settlement patterns and the location of iconic historical structures, such as Karnak temple.

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The District Commissioners had to authorize the largest components: 10 pillars, including four modeled after columns in the Temple of Karnak in Luxor.

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The winner of the contest — whose rules Karnak breezily changes as he goes — will return to earthly life and leave Karnak’s limbo, which set designer Scott Davis renders as a warehouse atmospherically stacked with carnival parts.

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But if you had to discount the sinister and snarky Karnak — the show’s presiding genius — the most arresting figure would be the spooky Jane Doe.

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