The Karnak Temple in Egypt, located about 480 kilometers south of the Cairo capital, is an objective of the UNESCO World Heritage and receives millions of tourists every year. This temple is considered the most important religious complex of ancient Egypt, but its origin has remained a mystery.
Soon, the English researchers at the University of Southampton carried out the most complete geoarheological research of the Karnak Temple.
They claim that it was built about 4000 years ago by an elite group as a place of worship of the supreme and strong ammonive god. This deity, revered throughout Egypt, represented at that time a merger between the “invisible” god of air, Amon, and the god of the Sun, Ra.
According to experts, their conclusions have ended the disputes on the earliest colonization and construction of the Temple in Karnak. As the study author told Dr. Ben Pennington, there were two main versions. According to the first, the temple was built very early, around 3000 BC. According to the second, it probably dates from a later period, around 2000 BC, reports Noi.md with reference to.
The researchers claim that the land on which the temple was built formed when the riverbed cut the land from the west and from the east, creating an island on a height, surrounded by water. And the ancient Egyptian texts from the old kingdom of the Old Kingdom say that the Amonstra Creator God was manifested in the form of a height that came out of the “lake”.
“This new research provides unprecedented information about the evolution of the Temple in Karnak: from a small island to one of the defining institutions of ancient Egypt,” Pennington said.
