What is Luxor and where is it located?
What are the most prominent archaeological landmarks in it?
First. Luxor is an archaeological city located in southern Egypt, formerly known as Thebes. It is the capital of Egypt in the Pharaonic era, located on the banks of the Nile River, which divides it into two parts, the East Bank and the West Bank. It is about 670 kilometers away from Cairo. As for the north of Luxor, the city of Aswan is located, which is about 220 kilometers away from Luxor. The area of Luxor is about 416 square kilometers, and the populated area is 208 km, and its population is approximately 289,618 people. The founding of the city of Thebes dates back to the era of the Fourth Dynasty around 257 BC and until the Middle Kingdom, Thebes was nothing more than a group of simple neighboring huts. Despite this, it was used as a cemetery to bury the dead, as the governors of the regions were buried there from the era of the Old Kingdom and beyond. The city of Thebes later became the capital of Egypt in the era of the eleventh Egyptian dynasty at the hands of Pharaoh Mentuhotep I, who succeeded in unifying the country again after the chaos that prevailed in Egypt in the first era of decline. The city of Thebes remained the capital of the Egyptian state until the fall of the rule of the pharaohs. Archaeological landmarks in Luxor. It includes many ancient Pharaonic archaeological landmarks divided into the eastern and western banks of the city. The eastern bank includes Luxor Temple, Karnak Temple, the Avenue of Sphinxes linking the two temples, and the Luxor Museum. As for the western bank, it includes the Valley of the Kings, the Deir el-Bahari Temple, the Valley of the Queens, the Monastery of the City, the Ramesseum Temple, and the Colossi of Memnon.
Luxor is adorned with the Nile River, which extends through the middle of the city between east and west, from which the Nile cruise departs to Aswan. This trip on the Nile takes a week and returns again to Luxor. This is an overview of the city of Luxor.
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