Karnak

American  

[kahr-nak] / ˈkɑr næk /

noun

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

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Karnak British  

/ ˈkɑːnæk /

noun

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

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Karnak

An international team of researchers led by Uppsala University has completed the most extensive geoarchaeological investigation ever conducted at Egypt's Karnak Temple complex.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 4, 2026

This shift opened up additional space, allowing Karnak to expand into the massive complex seen today.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 4, 2026

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.

From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2024

Amenhotep I and his successors built temples and other major public works in his honor, particularly the great Temple of Amun at Karnak.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

Champollion walked the Great Hypostyle Hall at Karnak and casually read the inscriptions, which had mystified everyone else, answering the question he had posed as a child to Fourier.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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