Karnak

American  

[kahr-nak] / ˈkɑr næk /

noun

1. a village in E Egypt, on the Nile: the northern part of the ruins of ancient Thebes.

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Karnak British  

/ ˈkɑːnæk /

noun

1. a village in E Egypt, on the Nile: site of the N part of the ruins of ancient Thebes

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Example Sentences

The island identified beneath Karnak is the only known example of such high ground encircled by water in the region.

From Science Daily • Jan. 4, 2026

The land that eventually supported Karnak formed when Nile river channels carved paths on both the western and eastern sides of a natural terrace.

From Science Daily • Jan. 4, 2026

But as luck would have it, his friend Marika Dalley Snider, an architectural historian at the University of Memphis, was working at the time on a digital reconstruction of the Karnak Temple in Egypt.

From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2024

The ruins of these temples are located at Karnak in southern Egypt.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

On the walls and columns of Karnak, at Dendera, everywhere in Egypt, Champollion delighted to find that he could read the inscriptions almost effortlessly.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan