Pillars at the edge of the Hypostyle Hall along with the surrounding wall in the Karnak temple

Once you get inside the Hypostyle Hall (in the Karnak temple at Luxor), you realize the size of the huge pillars (all 134 of them), with these pillars having the remains of some equisite carving on them. Some of the pillars (very few of them) are connected at the top with a ceiling (called the architrave). Most of the others have fallen down, but you have to admire the building practices of 35 centuries back, which enabled the construction of such a huge building without the support of cranes, and the like.
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