The Karnak Temples (Arabic edition)

For seven years, a Supreme Council of Antiquities team directed by the author surveyed and excavated the area in front of the First Pylon of Karnak Temple. The excavations revealed a great embankment at least 6.5 meters high, running roughly along the Nile’s north–south axis, indicating that the Karnak complex was built on a peninsula and had been surrounded by this huge embankment, which protected it from the erosion of the flood. The first phase in construction began during the late New Kingdo