Luxor Day Tour

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Luxor Temple

• The Luxor temple (Large complex)
  (Ancient Egyption temple) located on the east bank of the Nile River in the city to day known as Luxor (Ancient the bes) and was constructed approximately 1400BCE
• The Luxor temple was built with sandstone from the Gebel el_silsila area, which is located in south western Egypt.

Karnak temple

• The Karnak temple complex commonly known as karnak comprises a vast mix of temples, pylons, chapels, and other buildings near Luxor, Egypt.
• Construction at the complex began during the reign of senusret (reigned1971-1926)BCE In the middle kingdom (c. 2000-1700BCE)and continued into the [ptolemaic kingdom] (305- 30BCE) although most of the extant buildings date from the New Kingdom.
• the are a around Karnak was the ancient Egyptian lpet-isut ("the most selected of places") and the main place of worship of the 18Th Dynastic the ban triad with the god "Amun" as its head.
• It is part of the monumental city of thebes and in 1979 it was added to the UNESCo world Heritage list along with the rest of the city the Karnak complex gives its name to the near by, and partly surrounded,modern Village of El-Karnak, 2,5kilo metres (1,6)miles,north of Luxor.

Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut

• The mortuary temple of Hatshepsut Egyptian :Dsr_dsrw meaning "Holy of Holies" is amortuary temple built during thereigr of pharaoh Hatshepsut of the Eighteenth Dynasy of Egypt. Located opposite the city of Luxor, it is considered to be amasterpiece of ancient architecture its three massive terracesrise above the desert floor and into the cliffs of Deir el_Bahari Her tomb, kv 20,lies inside the same massif capped by ElQurn, a pyramid forber mortuary complex.
• At the edge of the desert,(1km co, 62mi) est connected to the complex by a causeway lies the accompanying valley temple. Across the River Nile, the whole structure points to words the monumental Eight pylon, Hatshepsut's most recognizable addition to the temple of Karnak and the site from which the procession of the Beautiful festival of the volley departed. The temple's twin function are identified by its axes:its main east _west axis served to receive the barque of Amun_ Re at the climax of the festival, whil its north_south axis represented the life cycle of the pharaoh from coronation torebirth.

Vally of the Queens

• The vally of the Queens is a sitein Egypt, where the wives of pharaohs were buried in ancient times. It was known then as ta_set_Nefera meaning "the place of beauty". It was most famous for being the burial site of many wives of pharaoh.
• Pharaohs the mselves were buried in the valley of the kings using the limits described by[ Echristion leblanc], the valley of the Queen's consists of the main wadi, which contains most of the tombs, a long with the vallay of prince Armose, the valley of the Rope, the valley of the three pits, and the valley of the Dolmen the main wadi contains91tombs. and the subsidiary valleys addanother19 tombs. The burials in the subsidiary valleys all date to the 18th Dynasty

Valley of the king

• It is wadi sitting on the west bank of the Nile opposite thebes (modern_day Luxor) and with in the heart of the the ban Necroplis, there are two main section :the East valley, where the majority of the rot at tombs are situated, and the west valley other wise known as the valley of the monkeys.
• With the 2005 discovery of a now chamber and the 2008 discovery of two further tomb entrances, the valley of the king is known to contain 65 tombs and chambers, ranging in size from the simple pit that is kv54 to the complex tomb that is KV5 which a lone has over120 chambers for the sons of Ramessesll.
• It was the principal burial place for the Now kingdom's major royal figures as well as a number of privileged nobles. The royal tombs are de corated with tradition alscenes from Egyption my thology and reveal clues to the period's funerary practices and after life death.