Animations of the Temple Model

Thematic Videos and Instructional Texts
Miscellaneous videos
The Digital Karnak Project aims to make the site of Karnak more accessible to students and instructors. As part of this goal, a three-dimensional computer model of the temple was constructed, offering students a completely new way to view the temple. The short animated videos in this section were created from the computer model to provide compelling imagery for classroom discussions.

Available Resources

Phase-by-Phase: Southeast – The chronological development of Karnak as seen from the southeast. 3min 17sec.

Phase-by-Phase: Northeast – The chronological development of Karnak as seen from the northeast. 3min 17sec.

Phase-by-Phase: Northwest – The chronological development of Karnak as seen from the northwest. 3min 17sec.

Phase-by-Phase: Southwest – The chronological development of Karnak as seen from the southwest. 3min 17sec.

Phase-by-Phase: Plan View – The chronological development of Karnak as seen in plan view. 3min 17sec.

Temple Fly-Around: General – This animation shows a general overview starting from the east gate and going to Pylon VII. 0min 50sec.

Temple Fly-Around: Sacred Lake – This animation navigates the viewer from eastern Karnak across the sacred lake to the Thutmose III shrine. 0min 47sec.

Temple Fly-Around: Thutmose IV – This animation showcases the Thutmose II ‘Festival Court’ during the reign of Thutmose IV. 1min 10sec.

Temple Fly-Around: Greco-Roman Period – This animation gives a general overview of the Amun complex during the Greco-Roman period. 1min 7sec.

Temple Walk-Through: Western Processional Route – This animation takes the viewer into the temple via the western gateway all the way to the central bark shrine. 1min 35sec.

Temple Fly-Through: Southern Processional Way – This animation shows the return along the southern processional route and ends at the sacred lake. 1min 9sec.

Temple Fly-Through: First Court – This animation flies into the Shoshenq I court via the 1st pylon to look around. 0min 43sec.

Hypostyle Hall & Clerestory Lighting – This animation gives an impression of the hypostyle hall as it would have looked at the end of the New Kingdom. 0min 39sec.

Osiris Catacombs – This animation takes the viewer inside the catacombs for a closer look. 0min 52sec.

Pylon Detail – This animation looks closely at the torus molding and cavetto cornice. 0min 40sec.

Semitic Museum Relief – An animation showing the original location of a relief panel housed at the Harvard Semitic Museum. 1min 20sec.