36: The White Chapel

Senuseret I (Part 3): Creating Karnak Temple. The temple of Karnak is a wonder of the world; but its origins are mostly lost, beneath generations of re-modelling and re-building. Nevertheless, a few traces survive of the earliest days; among them, a magnificent monument of King Senuseret I...

• Date c.1950 BCE.
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Select Bibliography:

Wolfram Grajetzki, The Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt, 2006.

James H. Breasted, A History of Egypt, 1905 (1959 Edition).

UCLA Digital Karnak Project.

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