Carvings on a pillar inside the Great Hypostyle Hall in the Karnak temple

The Great Hypostyle Hall inside the Karnak temple is one of the most amazing parts of the Karnak temple. It has 134 huge pillars, all of them with carvings on the pillar, and covers an area of 50,000 square feet. The roof of the hall is no longer present (except for a couple of small sections); and there is a lot of speculation about how the huge roof of the hall was put up, since each of these small sections of the roof weighs around 70 tonnes.
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