During the New Kingdom, the Temple of Amun-Re at Karnak was the most important place of worship in Egypt. (Amun-Re was King of the Gods and father to the pharaoh.) The entire temple complex covers ...

On the northern hemisphere’s shortest day of the year, the first rays of sunlight in the early morning align perfectly with the main axis of the city’s Temple of Amun-Re. As the sun bathes the ...

The hammer, cast, adze, and one of the chisels have inscriptions that read "the good god Neb Maat Re, in the temple Djeser Djeseru, beloved by Amun." Amun was the chief god of Thebes, which is ...

and the female pharaoh Hatshepsut (who was believed to have descended from Amon-Re), the Temple of Hatshepsut stands out for its grand architecture and jaw-dropping landscape. Situated at the base ...

Nesyamun was a priest at the temple of Amun in the Karnak complex at Thebes (modern day Luxor).Nesyamun was a 'waab priest', which meant he had reached a certain level of purification and was ...