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

She undertook ambitious building projects that rivaled any male pharaoh’s, including hundred-foot obelisks at Karnak, an immense memorial temple and a network of roads.

From Ozy

A similar state had occurred that 'Karnak night' of a long ten days ago, though he had not understood it then.

From Project Gutenberg

Crossing to the right bank, describe the ruins at Luxor, and so come to the vast and overwhelming Temple of Karnak itself.

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The names of the captured cities of Palestine are still to be read on the walls of the temple of Karnak.

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The temple as we see it at Karnak and Luxor is the collective and successive work of many generations.

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They are not, like the temples at Karnak and Luxor, the accumulated results of 265several generations.

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