Image description for Great Hall of Pillars at Karnak.

A huge stone building, roofless; walls on either side are made of giant pillars and stone frames of windows; down the middle, where we are looking, run two rwos of giant pillars, tapered towards the top, with Egyptian hieroglyphs on them. In the foreground, open masonry. Sunlight and shadow gives a sense of openness. In the far distance (as it seems) perhaps is a all pillar and an arch. But in the middle foreground, just beyond the first mound of rubble, is a group of three people wearing turbans. they are tiny compared to the giant pillars, which we know to be 80 feet (24 metres) tall. All is ruin, but what grandeur there must have been!

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