The Karnak site covers a huge area. The precinct of Amun in fact encloses several temples, but most people will be content to walk through the biggest of these, the Temple of Amun, whose Hypostyle Hall alone is large enough to contain both St Paul's Cathedral in London and St Peter's Church in Rome.
One dynasty after another added to the Temple of Amun, so that during its founding during the Middle Kingdom to the building of its outermost or First Pylon during the 25th Dynasty, 1300 years elapsed. The Asian conquests of Tuthmosis III and Ramses II brought New Kingdom Egypt to the peak of power and prosperity. The great God Amun also received his share, so that his temple soon controlled perhaps as much as a fifth of Egypt's workforce and nearly a third of its land.
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