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It's the closest thing to a time machine around.
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Epic!
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They're so tall that you can't take a picture of them without their perspective looking skewed and out of plumb.
egypt: part three
March 21, 2008
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A view of the two standing obelisks from the other side of one of the walls.
egypt: part three
March 21, 2008
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Here's me (in my stylish hat...pow!) standing in front of the peak of one of the obelisks that's no longer standing upright.
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I took a lot of these kinds of pics to help me remember just how enormous the whole site is.
egypt: part three
March 21, 2008
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Wandering around the outskirts of another section of the complex.
egypt: part three
March 21, 2008
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A view of the base.
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There are two obelisks still standing. Each one is around 100' tall!
egypt: part three
March 21, 2008
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Another rad photo of what the Karnac site looked like in the mid-Nineteenth Century.
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After going through the Hypostle Hall, you enter another part of the complex that has a bunch of huge obelisks.
egypt: part three
March 21, 2008
obelisk + karnak
The Temple consists of four sections (or precincts), but the vast majority of what is open to the public is part of the Precinct of Amun-Re. The temple was built right near the ancient city of Thebes by Pharaoh Amenhotep III around 1,350 BC (over 3,300 years ago!).
egypt: part three
March 21, 2008