Tourist places in Luxor

Tourist places in Luxor

Karnak Temple

Karnak, also called the Karnak temple complex, is a group of temples, buildings and columns, where expansion and construction continued since the Pharaonic era, specifically the kings of the Middle Kingdom until the Roman era in Luxor in Egypt on the eastern coast. The temple was built for the divine trinity Amun (Amun-Re in modern times), his wife the goddess Mut and their son the god Khonsu; Each of them has a temple belonging to the Karnak temple complex. Sometimes tourists and non-specialists mean only Karnak Temple, the temple belonging to Amun i Amun Ra.

?Why it is called by that name

It was called by this name in relation to the city of Karnak. It is a modern name distorted from the Arabic word Khornaq, which means the fortified village, which was given to many temples in the region during this period.

While the temple was initially known as (Bar Amun).

That is, the Temple of Amun or the House of Amun. During the Middle Kingdom, it was called Ibt Sut, which means the most chosen of places (sometimes translated as the chosen spot). This name was found on the walls of the chapel of Senusret I in Pylon III. The temple was also known by many names, including Nisut-Twa, which means the throne of the two states, and Ebit Iset, which means the most wonderful residence.

Date

middle country

With the arrival of the kings of the Eleventh Dynasty to rule all of Egypt, Karnak was already considered a sacred land, it seems that a form of worship of the god Amun had taken from Karnak a place before the unification of the country, which had a direct impact on increasing the power and wealth of Amun and gradually merging it with The sun god Ra. The White Chapel of Senusret I and the court of the Middle Kingdom are the oldest remains of buildings within the temple precinct. Sonsert I began construction in the period 1971 BC until 1926 BC, and limestone was used in construction

The golden age of Karnak

because the kings of the eighteenth dynasty, the first family in the ancient state, cared about the worship of Amun after it was merged with Ra, and he became Amun-Ra, and they worshiped him as the god of war