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Karnak Egypt - photo wallpapers: About three kilometres from the temple at Luxor one finds vast zone covered by the monuments at Karnak which the Greeks called Hermonthis. The area covered by the monuments is divided into three with rough brick walls separating them. The largest, which covers about thirty hectares, is the central area which is also the best preserved. Diodorus of Sicily said of it that it is the most ancient of the four temples at Thebes. It is the temple dedicated to Amon. On the left is the sanctuary of Montu, the god of war, which is rectangular and covers about two and a half hectares. On the other side covering about nine hectares, of which about half is as yet unexplored, is the sanctuary of the goddes Mut, Amons wife, who is symbolically represented as a vulture. The great temple of Amon amazes one by its sheer size. It is the largest temple supported by columns in the world and is so vast that it could easily contain the whole of Notre Dame de Paris and according to Leonard Cottrell "would cover at least half of Manhattan". The most truly amazing feature is the hypostyle hall which is one hundred and two metres long by fifty three metrws wide and in which there stand (this time one is really tempted to say defying the centuries!) one hundred and thirty four columns 23 metres high.

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