Luxor
Luxor or as it was called in ancient egypt “ thebes” was the capital when ancient civilization was on its peak , and the greatest kings ruled it like ramses the second , tut ankh amon , hatshepsut , thutmose the third , amenophis the third , and nowadays each tourist can enjoy in luxor a great trip , visiting open air museum has a round 30% antiquities of ancient egypt , and enjoy nile cruise from luxor to aswan in a very warm nice weather .
in luxor , there is a lot of options to use , for example nile cruise during sunset or lunch in nile cruise afternoon , renting bike and visit various temples and tombs in western bank of luxor , flying early morning with balloon to get a very special view on this specific place in egypt : borders of the western desert very close to nile valley , yellow and green drawing a special edgy not from the blue nile , in addition to that , the great antiquities standing stunning in the mountains and on nile valley representing our ancient egyptian , evening is that time to visit both massive temples of eastern bank , karnak temple by seating overlooking to its sacred lake its magical show of sound & light , visiting and touring in the other temple “ luxor temple and the sphinx alee which interconnect this temple with the karnak temple during enlightening this tempel each evening .
Name of luxor
Luxor is the arabic name of this city which is plural from qasr this means palace , because when arab reached this city and showed its massive buildings , they thought that these temples were palaces for the ancient egyptians .
but in ancient time the name of luxor was theben , which is derived from the ancient word ta
History of luxor
The history of luxor date back to predynastic era , and it was a settlement of ancient egyptians in this place , but its role appears just after kicking the hyksos out of egypt , because the ancient egyyptian thought that , it was the favor from local god in the south god amon , and they unified him with god , and it was called amon ra , so there was a great change from north to south by changing the capital of egypt from south to the north and ruled egypt then the greatest kings in ancient Egypt , because so the city was a huge massive buildings on both sides , and highly important to mention the notes of ancient voyagers in ancient time , and their description of luxor ,capital of egypt with massive enclosure wall surrounding the whole city with 100 gates , each gate could permit 200 people to enter and exit together at the same type , all that reflect luxor’s position in Ancient Egypt , but it was not too long just 500 years , later the power of kings in ancient egypt went down , and
Geography of luxor
Luxor his its comfortable location with very simple location divided by river nile to eastern side of the nile and western side parallel with western mountains of luxor , these mountains were the source of raw material of temples and tombs and also place of tombs and mortuary temples on the western bank .
Sightseeing in luxor
- karnak temple
- luxor temple
- luxor museum
- winter palace hotel
- colossal statue of memnon.
- valley of the kings
- temple of madinet habu
- valley of the queens
- ramasseum