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Egypt , Karnak - The Temple of Karnak
Dismounting for a few minutes, we went into the Temple ; glanced round the open courtyard with its colonnade of pillars ; peeped hurriedly into some ruinous sidechambers ; and then rode on. Our books told us that we had seen the small Temple of Rameses the Third. It would have been called large anywhere but at Karnak.
Yet to look is something, if one can but succeed in remembering ; and the Great Hall of Karnak is photographed in some dark corner of my brain for as long as I have memory. I shut my eyes, and see it as if I were there - not all at once, as in a picture ; but bit by bit, as the eye takes note of large objects and travels over an extended field of vision.
Amelia B. Edwards A Thousand Miles up the Nile 1889
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