Showing posts with label hypostyle hall. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hypostyle hall. Show all posts

Monday, March 1, 2010

Karnak Temple

Karnak is the biggest temple ever. Or pretty close. It has the largest hypostyle hall anywhere, and was begun by Amenhotep III and added to by about a million other pharaohs after him. Everything about it is massive. See below:



Remains of the mudbrick ramp they would've used to build this massive wall.



These columns are huge! And guess who built them? Oh yeah, Ramses II. Of course...