Egypt displayed its greatness with impressive feats of engineering in the expansion of its two great temple complexes at Karnak and Luxor on the eastern bank of the Nile.

Earthquakes, looting and Nile floods obscured much of ruler Amenhotep III's temple until archaeologists embarked on a massive excavation there in 1999. (About one-eighth of the site is visible ...

Major archaeological discovery in Egypt where the Franco-Egyptian archaeological mission of the Centre Franco-Égyptien d’Étude des Temples de Karnak (CFEETK, French-Egyptian Center for the Study of ...

An inscription on Egypt’s Great Temple of Ammon at Karnak tells how Pharaoh Sheshonk I ravaged this part of Palestine a few years after Solomon’s death. Secret Tunnel. Dr.

Archaeologists excavating the Karnak temple complex in Luxor, Egypt, were in for a dazzling surprise when they turned up a clutch of gold jewelry and ornaments. The mission was undertaken by the ...

NARRATOR: And this strategy is best seen at Karnak, a vast temple complex where pharaohs dedicated great building projects to Amun, the king of the gods. ♪ ♪ When the Kushite kings arrive ...

Solar alignment at the temple in Karnak, Egypt. Credit: Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities (Egypt) The Karnak Temple in Luxor, Egypt offered a dazzling spectacle as the rising sun aligned perfectly ...

On Saturday, thousands of tourists from Egypt and outside it flocked to the Karnak Temple to witness the phenomenon of the sun aligned on the main axis of the Karnak Temple. This event occurs annually ...

Almost every temple in Egypt was rebuilt, redecorated or expanded . In Thebes, the great temple to Amen-Re gained a new entrance with four colossi of the pharaoh, to remind people who was in charge.

Alexander The Great, Macedonia Aristotle's beloved pupil, Alexander the Great, was a true hero to his people after successfully eliminating the Persian Empire and conveying Macedonian arms to India.

IN 1891 Sir Norman Lockyer made a magnetic survey of the axis of the great Temple of Amen-Ra, at Karnak, with the view of determining an astronomical date for the original building.