Karnak
Americannoun
noun
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Today, Karnak Temple sits about 500 meters east of the Nile near Luxor, once the religious capital of ancient Egypt known as Thebes.
From Science Daily • Jan. 4, 2026
The island identified beneath Karnak is the only known example of such high ground encircled by water in the region.
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
The ruins of these temples are located at Karnak in southern Egypt.
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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