the name of a village near Thebes in Upper Egypt, and built on a small part of the site of a single temple, the circumference of which, it is said, it would require half an hour to walk round. The ruins of this temple, which are yet visible, seem to indicate, according to Denon, that it was the largest in the world; and he thinks it probable, that the temple of Karnac, Karnac, as well as that of Luxor, was built in the time of Sesostris, when Egypt was in the highest degree of prosperity. The plan of this temple is said to be noble and grand; but Denon supposes that the embellishments were added long after the building of the temple, as they exhibit a more correct and chaste style. The portico alone is composed of 100 columns, the smallest of which are not less than 7½ feet in diameter, and the largest 12.