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The Open Museum at Karnak Temple gathers ancient chapels beneath the open sky, surrounded by warm sandstone and quiet light. Newly laid stone paths make the space easy to cross. Wooden benches offer places to pause while the pale chapel walls and carved reliefs come into view. Signs explain the stories held in the monuments.
The White Chapel of King Senusret I stands among the oldest surviving structures here, with hieroglyphs still clear enough to follow by eye. Nearby, the Red Chapel of Queen Hatshepsut shows the queen beside King Thutmose III in finely carved reliefs. Alabaster chapels linked to Thutmose I and Thutmose IV catch the changing sunlight through their translucent stone. Smooth sandstone beneath your feet and sun-warmed surfaces keep the ancient setting tangible as you look from one monument to the next.
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The myTuur app is free, and once you are standing at a spot its story starts by itself.
Spots like this one are the stops myTuur strings into tours through Old Karnak. In the app, each story begins where you stand: walk up to a spot and it starts, read it on screen or listen as you go, then follow the route to the next one.
What is myTuur?
myTuur is a free city-guide app. Its tours are built from spots, and each spot carries a story that starts when you get there, to read or to listen to as you like.