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Workers outside Karnak, the oldest standing temple in the world
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Precinct of Amun-Re, the entrance to Karnak
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Many sphinxes
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Precinct of Amun-Re entrance
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Karnak outer wall
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Carvings are on every wall within Karnak
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Massive column in Karnak
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Huge statues in Karnak
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Huge statues
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Many statues are just ruins
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Relaxing in Karnak
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The ceiling was over seventy-five feet above and these columns are made from stone brought in from over one hundred miles away
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It is a shame most of the statues are ruins
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These shorter columns of about forty feet in height probably only held a wooden ceiling
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Amazing to see some of the paint has survived thousands of years
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A story carved into the Karnak wall
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More statues
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Check out these statue legs - must have been a grand entrance to see back in the day
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Of the four obelisks here, only two are standing. One is over fifty feet tall, weighing more than three hundred tons!
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Water!
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I could not believe the paint was still visible in some areas
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Karnak Temple
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The darkened band is where the sand level was in the early 1800's
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Luxor. The Nile is huge; very wide.
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These guys scared the crap out of us. All of a sudden this boat comes up to us with three guys armed with assault rifles, yelling something in Arabic
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The airport; back to Cairo