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| Egypt Attractions: Luxor Sightseeing |
List of Luxor attractions and sights. Luxor historical places to visit; pyramids, museums, temples, tombs, mosques, palaces, mausoleums, castles and more... |
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Temple of Luxor |
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The temple of Luxor is close to the Nile and parallel with the riverbank. King Amenhotep III who reigned 1390-53 BC built this beautiful temple and dedicated it to Amon-Re, king of the gods, his consort Mut, and their son Khons. |
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Valley of the Kings |
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In the Valley of the kings over 60 tombs have been found. The majority of the tombs are from the 18th to the 20th Dynasties. Tombs were being robbed which prompted priest during the 21st Dynasty to move many of the royal mummies to a secrete tomb outside of the valley. This tomb was discovered in 1881. The most famous tomb discovered in the valley was the tomb of King Tut. |
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Valley of The Queens |
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The Valley of the Queens is located on the West Bank at Luxor (ancient Thebes). There are between 75 and 80 tombs in the Valley of the Queens, or Biban al-Harim. These belong to Queens of the 18th, 19th and 20th Dynasties. These include |
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Mosque of Abu Haggag |
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The Mosque of Abu Haggag is a mosque located in the Egyptian city of Luxor. Specifically, it stands atop the ruins of Luxor Temple, an Ancient Egyptian centre of worship dating back to the reign of Pharaoh Amenhotep III in the 14th century BC. |
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Ramesseum |
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The Ramesseum was constructed to be the mortuary temple of Ramses 2. While originally laid out on a grand scale, one error was done concerning its eternal qualities. It was built on a field that was inundated by the Nile's flooding once a year. By the time of construction, the nearby temple of Seti 1 had already started to fall apart. |
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Colossi of Memnon |
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The two lonely statues out on the plains of Luxor's west bank are not of Memnon, but of Amenophis 3 of the 15th century BCE. And they used to belong to his huge mortuary temple, standing in front of its pylons. But only 150 years ordered pharaoh Merneptah that stones should be taken from Amenophis' temple, and used for his own mortuary temple just a few hundred metres north. The reason why he could do this, is possibly because large parts of it was built from mud-brick, which by then had been largely destroyed by the flooding of the Nile. |
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Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep III |
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Amenhotep III built not only the largest temple at Thebes (on the West Bank at Luxor), but in Egypt, measuring 700 by 550 meters. It covered 385,000 square meters (4,200,000 square feet). It was even larger than the temple of Amun-Re at Karnak. The temple's architect was also named Amenhotep, but was the son of Hapu. Unfortunately, it seem that the temple began to decay rapidly, and during the reign of Merenptah, it was actively used as a source of limestone blocks for the temple of that ruler. |
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Egypt e voyage lists 17 sights in Luxor |
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