Great Karnak Inscription

Great Karnak Inscription

Located on the wall of the Cachette Court, in the Precinct of Amun-Re of the Karnak temple complex, in modern Luxor, the Great Karnak Inscription of Merneptah is a record of the campaigns of this king against the Sea Peoples.cite book | author= Weigall, Arthur | title=A Guide to the Antiquities of Upper Egypt|publisher=Mentheun & Co| location=London| year = 1910| id = ISBN 1-4253-3806-2 | pages=p.109]

The inscription which has now lost about a third of its content) shows the king's campaigns and eventual return with booty and prisoners. [cite book|title=Karnak: Evolution of a Temple|first=Elizabeth|last=Blyth|year=2006|publisher=Routledge|location=Oxford|id=ISBN 0-415-40487-8|pages=pp 164-165]

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