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    Egypt’s greatest temple

    Apr 23, 2020 2 minutes

    Pillar talk

    gargantuan forest of 134 columns up to 21 metres high and 10 metres in circumference fills the Great Hypostyle Hall in Karnak’s Temple of Amun. This precinct at Thebes, site of the modern city of Luxor, had modest beginnings in the 20th century BC. Over the following centuries it was expanded vastly – ‘most select of places’.

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