The History of Egypt 164b: Karnak, Renovation Station
Jul 12, 2022
21:03
Horemheb at Karnak (Part 2). There are secrets beneath the sand of Karnak. Horemheb's architects significantly changed the temple's landscape. In some cases, they even relocated older buildings, dismantling and moving them piece-by-piece...
Episode details:
- Date: c. 1329 BCE.
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- Music by Keith Zizza.
- Music interludes by Luke Chaos.
Select Bibliography:
- M. Azim, ‘La structure des pylônes d’Horemheb à Karnak’, Cahiers de Karnak VII (1982), 127—166.
- E. Blyth, Karnak: Evolution of a Temple (New York, 2006).
- Digital Karnak, ‘9th Pylon’, https://digitalkarnak.ucsc.edu/9th-pylon/.
- Digital Karnak, ‘10th Pylon’, https://digitalkarnak.ucsc.edu/10th-pylon/.
- Digital Karnak, ‘Edifice of Amenhotep II’, https://digitalkarnak.ucsc.edu/edifice-of-amenhotep-ii/.
- J-C. Goyon and C. Traunecker, ‘La Chapelle de Thot et d’Amon au sud-ouest du lac sacré’, Cahiers de Karnak VII (1982), 355—366.
- M. Jordan et al., La porte d’Horemheb au Xe pylône de Karnak (2015).
- R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz, The Temples of Karnak (1999).
- C. Van Siclen III, ‘The Edifice of Amenhotep II at Karnak: An Architectural Pious Fraud’, in C. Leblanc and G. Zaki (eds), The Temples of Millions of Years and Royal Power at Thebes in the New Kingdom (2010), 81—89.
- W. Wreszinski, Atlas zur altaegyptischen Kulturgeschichte (1988).
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