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The “Botanical Garden,” so called because its walls were covered with of reliefs of fauna and flora that the pharaohs found in Syria and Palestine.
The guide showed us the other Hatshepsut obelisk that was on the ground. This obelisk had several carvings of Amun.
Tuthmosis III “wanted to destroy her obelisk but the God said no, so he had a sandstone wall built around it and that has preserved it,” our guide said. This obelisk, nevertheless, showed signs of partial obliteration of Hatshepsut’s images.
On the back of the third pylon there was a freeze of the pharaoh sailing the sacred barque during the Opet Festival that took place in the Nile’s inundation season. In other freezes scenes of “victories over enemies, Lebanese, Canaanites,” were depicted.
In the court after the fourth pylon, the famous female Egyptian Pharaoh Hatshepsut had erected two obelisks in honor of Amun. Thirty meters high, these monoliths from Aswan were the tallest obelisks at the time; and the one still standing is the tallest surviving obelisk in Egypt.
After the second pylon we saw a statue of that pylon’s builder Pharaoh Ramses II, in the typical pose of arms crossed at the wrist. Between his legs and on his feet stood a smaller statue of his daughter, Bent'anta.
The main attractions in the Temple of Karnak were in the Amun Enclosure. Just outside its entrance was a ditch showing the canal that connected this place to the Nile.
Their ruins occupy an area large enough to contain ten cathedrals in the heart of the town of Luxor today. The sheer size of the many columns still standing in the Karnak Temple dwarfed the tourists present from many countries on the day of our visit.
Ram was Amun’s sacred animal. These Sphinxes “were built by Ramses II, whose statue stands between the paws of each sphinx.
The sign at the entrance to the Temple of Karnak tells you the names of the pharaohs who contributed to its construction over 1,500 years.
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