Karnak: Egypt's Greatest Temple
The Ancients
History Hit
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Located on the banks of the River Nile in Luxor, Egypt, the Karnak Temple complex is one of the largest buildings ever constructed for religious purposes. Dedicated to the god Amun-Ra and covering over 200 acres - the Karnak Temple complex is bigger than some ancient cities.
Earlier this year, Tristan visited the Temple complex, and spoke to the Director of Karnak Temples, El-Tayeb Gharieb Mahmoud. In this special, on location episode, Tristan and Tayeb give us a tour of one of the most colossal sites left from the ancient world. Journeying around the complex, looking at the reliefs, architecture, and reflecting on the Pharaohs responsible for it's construction - what can we learn from this 4,000 year old building?
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Entrance on History Hit. I'm Tristan Hughes your host and in today's |
| 0:16.7 | podcast we've got a special treat for you today because a few months back I was fortunate |
| 0:22.3 | enough to head over to Egypt to film a series of documentaries for history hit and one |
| 0:29.0 | of them was all about the greatest or one of the greatest definitely the biggest temple |
| 0:36.1 | complex of the ancient world. This is the temple complex of Karnak which |
| 0:41.8 | boasts some 4000 yes you heard that right 4000 years of history stretching from the |
| 0:48.5 | middle kingdom the middle Egyptian kingdom to Champonion to Jean François Champonion |
| 0:54.1 | the deciphering of hieroglyphs and in this special podcast episode it's taken from our recent |
| 0:59.8 | documentary released on history hit all about Karnak I chatted to El Tayyab Gahyab Mahmoud |
| 1:06.7 | Tayyab who is the director of Karnak temples. This man knows everything that there is to |
| 1:14.6 | know about Karnak temples he knows where each hieroglyph is what each hieroglyph means he |
| 1:19.8 | is a walking encyclopedia for all things Karnak and we were lucky enough fortunate enough to have |
| 1:26.3 | some of his time when we visited Karnak a few months ago and in this podcast episode it's a mix |
| 1:32.7 | of me sitting down with Tayyab in the great hyper style hall of setty the first and also a bit |
| 1:38.1 | of a walk around to looking at some other features such as the white chapels sentence red the first |
| 1:43.9 | that's all to come in this very special on location in Egypt ancient's podcast the first time |
| 1:51.8 | we're doing an ancient's podcast outside of the UK it's another symbol of how we're always |
| 1:57.4 | growing always wanting to get bigger and better on the ancients but without further ado that's |
| 2:01.8 | enough rambling on from me here's Tayyab to talk all about Karnak |
| 2:14.3 | Tayyab first of all thank you so much for coming on the podcast today thank you so much you're |
| 2:18.0 | welcome I am so envious of your job and where you work here at Karnak because it's such an |
| 2:23.2 | incredible side I mean we're talking from inside the hyper style hall one of the most iconic monuments |
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