Investigating the History of Egypt’s Karnak Temple - Archaeology Magazine

Investigating the History of Egypt’s Karnak Temple - Archaeology Magazine

Researchers extract core samples at Karnak, Luxor, Egypt SOUTHAMPTON, ENGLAND—According to a statement released by the University of Southampton, a geoarchaeological survey of Luxor’s Karnak Temple has traced the evolution of the site over a 3,000-year period. Researchers led by Uppsala University archaeologist Angus Graham analyzed thousands of pottery fragments and the contents of 61 sediment cores taken from the temple site, which now lies so…

Karnak’s hidden island: What lies beneath Egypt’s great temple

Five hundred meters east of today’s Nile, in the city of ancient Thebes, rises one of Egypt’s greatest and most enduring monuments: the temple complex of Karnak. Over 3,000 years, its colossal pylons and extensive courtyards dedicated gods Amun-Ra, Montu, and Mut. But despite all the millennia of pilgrimages and excavations at Karnak, one secret was buried under the stone—the history of the land itself. How did the Nile and the shifting banks sh…

Research unearths origins of Ancient Egypt’s Karnak Temple - Scientific Inquirer

Researchers have carried out the most comprehensive geoarchaeological survey of Egypt’s Karnak Temple near Luxor – one of the ancient world’s largest temple complexes and a UNESCO World Heritage site welcoming millions of tourists every year. The study, published in Antiquity today [6 October] reveals new evidence on the age of the temple, tantalising links to ancient Egyptian mythology, and new insights about the interplay between the temple’s …