Ancient Egyptian Temples in Photos

Photos of the great temples of ancient Egypt, from the New Kingdom halls of Karnak and Luxor to the Ptolemaic and Roman temples of Edfu, Dendera and Philae. A temple earns a place if it still stands well enough to show how it worked: its gateways, columned halls, carved walls or painted ceilings. The photos run in the order a Nile traveler meets them, from Abydos in the north upriver to Abu Simbel near the Sudan border, and close with two temples given away after the Aswan High Dam and now rebuilt in New York and Madrid. The pyramids and Tutankhamun's treasures have galleries of their own.