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Karnak

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Kar·nak  (kärnk)
A village of east-central Egypt on the right bank of the Nile River on part of the site of ancient Thebes. Its pharaonic remains include the Great Temple of Amen and a massive structure begun by Amenhotep III.
Karnak [ˈkɑːnæk]
n
(Placename) a village in E Egypt, on the Nile: site of the N part of the ruins of ancient Thebes


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I expect Patty's Place will seem rather small after the Hall of the Kings at Karnak, but I never did like big places to live in.
Anne of The Island by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context
It was then passing over Mabunguru, a stony country, strewn with blocks of syenite of a fine polish, and knobbed with huge bowlders and angular ridges of rock; conic masses, like the rocks of Karnak, studded the soil like so many Druidic dolmens; the bones of buffaloes and elephants whitened it here and there; but few trees could be seen, excepting in the east, where there were dense woods, among which a few villages lay half concealed.
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Chinese Great Wall, among the temples of Karnak and Palmyra and in the
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