Today the opening of the Karnak Kings List after the completion of maintenance and restoration work
The Karnak Temples area in downtown Luxor will witness, this Monday evening, the opening of the “List of the Karnak Kings,” which is similar to the famous list of the Karnak Kings located in the Louvre Museum in Paris, following the completion of its maintenance and restoration work during the last period, under the supervision of Dr. Mustafa Waziri, Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, and Dr. Mustafa Al-Saghir, Director-General of Karnak.
The list of kings of Karnak, or the list of kings of Karnak, as archaeologists call it, is a list engraved on the walls of the Temple of Amun in Karnak, and it mentions the names of the pharaohs who ruled Egypt since the era of the First Dynasty. The list dates back to the era of the Nineteenth Dynasty, where the list shows Tuthmosis III standing and offering sacrifices. On the souls of 61 Pharaoh sitting before him.
Next to each king is his name in the form of cartouches, and the text states the following sentence: “The king from the birth of Ra - Tuthmosis III - may he enjoy life, permanence, strength, and health like the eternal Ra.”There is also a scene in the list of offering the “Hetepe-de-Nesut” sacrifice - that is, an offering offered by the king - to the kings of Upper and Lower Egypt. The list is engraved on the walls of the Temple of Amun in Karnak and shows an inscription of the king's sitting. Thutmose III found them when he expanded the Temple of Amun, so he moved them to other places.
The list does not describe the chronology of the pharaohs, but its importance stems from its mention of the pharaohs of the First Intermediate Period and the Second Intermediate Period.