He felt that the reason for it was not because it was an easier way of approach, but because he would approach the Temple in the manner intended by those who had built it.
As they stood waiting on the white steps of the Temple for the felucca to pick them up, the Duke felt that he was embarking on a voyage to another land.
Everything he had read about Karnak had bewildered him because it was difficult to understand what the author was trying to say and yet now, as they journeyed slowly towards the greatest Temple in Egypt, the Duke began to realise its significance.
He had read that Karnak covered four hundred acres by the riverside and he knew that brilliant paintings had adorned its walls and steles of lapis-lazuli were set on both sides of the foremost pylon, of which there were ten
