Sentence examples for the first pylon from inspiring English sources

On the first straightaway, he got the needle over 60 before sliding -- nearly sideways -- within two feet of the first pylon.

Until recently, most researchers assumed that Karnak was built on a fluvial island and that a large basin connected to the Nile was built in front of the first pylon during the dynastic period.

The presence of the Nile River in front of the first pylon in Karnak is attested from the end of the Second Intermediate Period (SIP, ca 1600 BC) until the end of Roman Times (ca. 350 AD), which both correspond to two main phases of Nile River floods.

Last week, with the first pylon being produced, the first A320neo - short for "new engine option" - is beginning to take shape.

Construction of the pylons began in July 2009 with the pouring of concrete into the first pylon.

But the first pylons sparked a backlash and were denounced in a letter to the Times signed by innumerable worthies, including Rudyard Kipling and John Maynard Keynes.

Statues of vast size stood before the second pylon, one of which, now toppled and ruined, has been estimated to weigh more than 1,000 tons.

There are few extant traces of the original Middle Kingdom (1938 c. 1630 bce) temple save a small jubilee shrine of Sesostris I (reigned 1908 1875), now reconstructed from fragments found inside the third pylon.

Under the circumstances it was built to occupy the space between the Second Pylon and the Ramses temple, and became somewhat more elaborate than the north entrance by the necessary addition of a pilaster against each of the earlier structures.

Amenhotep may have appointed Thutmose I as coregent before his own death as Thutmose I's name appears next to Amenhotep's on a divine barque found by archeologists in the fill of the third pylon at Karnak.

Thutmose had the fifth pylon built along the temple's main road, along with a wall to run around the inner sanctuary and two flagpoles to flank the gateway.