Karnak

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Kar·nak

 (kär′năk′)
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 Amun and a massive structure begun by Amenhotep III.
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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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Kar•nak

(ˈkɑr næk)

n.
a village in E Egypt, on the Nile: 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.
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.
Its emblems and symbols have been found in the Catacombs of Paris and Rome, on the stones of the Parthenon and the Chinese Great Wall, among the temples of Karnak and Palmyra and in the Egyptian Pyramids -- always by a Freemason.
KP Government has also opened Chief Minister House, Speaker House, Inspector General House, Karnak House in Natiagali for tourists.
Other rest houses that have been opened to the public include Police House and Karnak House.
Currently, the KP government is maintaining the Chief Minister House, Speaker House, Inspector General House and Karnak House in Nathiagali for tourists.
In addition to this five important government buildings including Governor House, Karnak House, CM House, Speaker House and IGP House in Galyat have also been handed over to the tourism department for renting it out to the visitors.
PESHAWAR -- Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has decided opening more than one hundred and seventy government rest houses, including Governor House, Chief Minister House, Speaker house and Karnak house in Nathiagali for general public.
Hawass told AFP that the piece appeared to have been "stolen" in the 1970s from the Karnak Temple complex just north of Luxor and the Egyptian foreign ministry asked the UK Foreign Office and the UN cultural body UNESCO to step in and halt the sale.
Summary: The bust is believed to have been smuggled out of Karnak Temples in Luxor
The Ramses III temple is one of the most important buildings in the Karnak antiquities complex and dates back to the 20th dynasty in Ancient Egypt.
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