Karnak: Light and ventilation system
Karnak: How did they get this ceiling block up and in position? Look at the bee in the fresco.
Karnak: These are original colors. This is another of those places that must be seen to be believed.
Karnak: This really reminded me of a scene from the movie Death on the Nile.
Karnak: The god of Fertility--as if you needed a caption to tell you that!
Making an offering
Karnak: Obelisk
Karnak: This part of the ruins has been partially reconstructed.
Karnak: The white 'spots' are ties that I believe are used to hold the blocks in place.
Karnak: It looks as if this part of the ruins had more than one level.
Karnak: the two obelisks
Karnak: the two obelisks
Karnak: Headed toward the inner santuary of Amun
Karnak: It looked to me as if these pieces had been placed here before they were used to reconstruct the jigsaw puzzle.
Karnak: Columns against the sky
Karnak: There used to be many more of these small sphinxes with ram heads
Karnak: Looking back at the main entrance. Note that this entrance was not finished: you can see that the pylons were not connected at the top as they were in…
Luxor Temple: The other obelisk is in Paris at the place de la Concorde (stolen by Napoleon's men)
Luxor Temple: The sphinx outside the temple entrance. One of the best pictures I took on the trip.
Luxor Temple: