Middle aisle of the great hall and obelisk of Thutmosis I temple at Karnak Thebes Egypt The first two columns one on each side have been repaired at some period with rough masonry The four nearly perfect ones on the right convey very effectively the grandeur and sombre beauty which an Egyptian architect understood how to express in his great colonnade Stereoscopic card Detail From a series called Egypt Through the Stereoscope text by James H Breasted