Although Karnak was built over some 1800 or so years, successive additions conformed to rigid principles of symmetry, arrangement and geometry. Permitted builds were neither ad hoc nor haphazard; the Egyptians projected their own standards upon their pantheon of demanding, stern Gods - do it well, with a side order of or else...
Karnak's ruins, though dilipidated and decayed, still exude this narrative:
The same image enlarged, with bisecting line:
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