No visit to Egypt, and especially Luxor, is complete without a visit to Karnak Temple. According to the Rough Guide to Egypt, this pharaonic monument is by far the largest and most complex found to date and is due to "1300 years of aggrandizement. From its XI Dynasty core..." Surprisingly, this core is easily missed by many visitors because it just looks like a few big rock on the grounds (seen in the second to last picture below), however, due to its age, it definitely deserves a peak if you make it to the Temple. Another amazing thing about Karnak Temple is that because of its size, there is still, according to Francesco Tiradritti, about two-thirds of it that has yet to be excavated, and as I mentioned in the Luxor Temple post, there are supposedly plans to once again join the Avenue of the Sphinxes of these two temples, as they were in their heyday. Again, there are many many many other interesting things about this temple and the others sites that I mentioned throughout my site, however, for that information, you have plenty of other resources, such as the Rough Guide to Egypt, that do a much better job of explaining them than I do.