... . As you proceed from one to the other the entrance is less permitting of large crowd or massing of people. The aforementioned is one of the key concepts in temples of its time - the usage of path along a progressional axis and progressive exclusion. The long stairs on either side of the temple allow the visitors to walk along the sides and suggests that a massing of visitors can approach the temple. In actuality the visitors of the temple, in its intended usage, would ... enter the compound through the free-standing gate that faces the Nile River. The free-standing ... ...

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