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Egyptian Sun Worship
Right. Egyptian Sun Worship at Karnak
Karnak Temple is a vast temple complex in Luxor, Egypt, dedicated primarily to Amun and dating from as early as 1932 BC. It is an impressive sight, and second only to the Great Pyramids in popularity.
After a century of foreign occupation, the New Kingdom (1550-1150 BC) of Egypt emerged, with its capital at Thebes. The captial city was embellished with grandiose temples worthy of the majesty of the pharaohs, the greatest being Karnak.
Construction on the Karnak temple complex went on for 900 years, with each pharoah leaving a new temple, shrine, or pylon (monumental gateway), and added detailed hieroglyphic inscriptions across every surface of its buildings.
When the pharoah Akhenaton abandoned the traditional worship of Amun and took up the worhsip of Aten, the sun god, he built a temple to Aten at Karnak. But after his death, the Theban priests destroyed all signs of sun worship, including the temple that defiled Karnak.
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