Luxor

Luxor Temple

Luxor (Arabic: أَلْأُقْصُر ‎ Al 'Uqṣur) is a urban centre inwards Upper (southern) Arab Republic of Egypt too the working capital missive of the alphabet of Luxor Governorate. The population numbers 487,896 (2010 estimate), amongst an expanse of some 416 foursquare kilometres (161 sq mi).As the site of the Ancient Egyptian urban centre of Thebes, Luxor has oftentimes been characterized equally the "world's greatest opened upward air museum", equally the ruins of the temple complexes at Karnak too Luxor stand upward within the modern city.

 Immediately opposite, across the River Nile, prevarication the monuments, temples too tombs on the West Bank Necropolis, which include the Valley of the Kings too Valley of the Queens. Thousands of international tourists larn far annually to catch these monuments, contributing a large piece of employment towards the economic scheme for the modern city.

 

Streets of Luxor

Sights of modern-day Luxor

l   Luxor Temple

l   Luxor International Airport

l   Karnak Temple

l   Luxor Museum

l   Mummification Museum

l   Winter Palace Hotel

West bank

l   Valley of the Kings

l   Valley of the Queens

l   Medinet Habu (memorial temple of Ramesses III)

l   The Ramesseum (memorial temple of Ramesses II)

l   Deir el-Medina (workers' village)

l   Tombs of the Nobles

l   Deir el-Bahri (Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut, etc.)

l   Malkata (palace of Amenophis III)

l   Colossi of Memnon (memorial temple of Amenophis III)

Luxor railway station

A caleche 4 bicycle carriage

Hot-air ballooning over the due west bank

Street marketplace inwards Luxor

Pharaonic statue inwards Luxor Temple

Luxor Temple

Luxor Temple is a large Ancient Egyptian temple complex located on the eastward depository fiscal establishment of the River Nile inwards the urban centre today known equally Luxor (ancient Thebes) too was founded inwards 1400 BCE. , Known inwards the Egyptian linguistic communication equally ipet resyt, or "the southern sanctuary", the temple was dedicated to the Theban Triad of Amun, Mut, too Chons too was built during the New Kingdom, the focus of the annual Opet Festival, inwards which a cult statue of Amun was paraded downward the Nile from nearby Karnak Temple (ipet-isut) to remain at that topographic point for a while, amongst his consort Mut, inwards a celebration of fertility – whence its name.

Entrance of Luxor Temple

The earliest parts of the temple all the same standing are the baroque chapels, merely behind the commencement pylon. They were built past times Hatshepsut, too appropriated past times Tuthmosis III. The primary piece of employment of the temple - the colonnade too the Sun courtroom were built past times Amenhotep III, too a later on add-on past times Rameses II, who built the entrance pylon, too the ii obelisks (one of which was taken to France, too is at in i trial at the centre of the Place de la Concorde) linked the Hatshepsut buildings amongst the primary temple.

Luxor Temple, from the eastward depository fiscal establishment of the Nile

To the nurture of the temple are chapels built past times Tuthmosis III, too Alexander. During the Roman era, the temple too its environment were a legionary fortress too the habitation of the Roman authorities inwards the area.

 

Hundreds of sphinxes in i trial lined the route to nearby Karnak

A good preserved sphinx

The massive First Pylon

The blood-red granite obelisk

The key corridor of the temple

Islamic mosque over pharaonic temple

Sitting Ramesses II Colossus within Luxor Temple

Closeup of the same Colossus

Amenhotep's colonnade from the peristyle court

The eastward side of the peristyle courtroom of Amenhotep III

Roman mural inwards an inner chamber

Central corridor too 4 colossi past times night

Closeup of illuminated blood-red granite obelisk

Sitting Ramesses II Colossus within Luxor Temple past times

Wall inscription