The temples in Karnak
The temples in Karnak
| Even in Karnak (today considered one of the most important archaeological
sites in Egypt and once a prospering religious centre in which the pharaohs were
incoronated), Ramses left a deep mark of his passage. In Amon-Ra’s great temple,
he completed the big Hypostyle Chamber, begun under Amenhotep’s II reign and
continued in more resumptions during Horemheb’s and his father Sethi’s I reigns.
This is an actual jewel of ancientness: it occupies an area of over five
thousand m2 and has more than 134 gigantic colums that support the ceiling.
Ramses ordered to decorate with celebrating relief the walls and he also wanted
the creation of a sacred lake, which has been kept up to our days. Its water
symbolically represented the place from which every form a life was born. Here
the cults of the Sun and Osiride were celebrated and the priests purified
themselves here before any ritual.
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