Claude-Étienne Savary describes the complex rather detailed in his work of 1785; especially in light that it is a fictional account of a pretended journey to Upper Egypt, composed out of information from other travellers.
Karnak so obiskali in opisali zaporedoma Claude Sicard in njegovi sopotniki Pierre Laurent Pincia (1718 in 1720-1721), Granger (1731), Frederick Louis Norden (1737-1738), Richard Pocock (1738), James Bruce (1769) Charles-Nicolas-de Manon Sigisbert Sonnini de Manoncourt (1777), William George Browne (1792-1793) in na koncu s številnimi znanstveniki Napoleonova odprava, vključno Vvivant Denon, med 1798-1799.