The English writer Amelia Edwards, who traveled through Egypt in the 1870s, described Karnak as "a place ... a sense of the vastness of the Great Hypostyle Hall is to walk through it yourself.

This nearly 200-foot-long temple features three bark chapels, a hypostyle hall of eight columns ... You start facing north toward the Great Court, with the statue of Ramses II in view through ...

Thousands of Egyptian visitors and tourists flocked to the Karnak Temple area in Luxor ... as well as the Great Hypostyle Hall. The alignment allows sunlight to enter from the main axis and ...