The Colossi of Memnon

The two Colossi of Memnon on Luxor's west bank are the only remaining standing statues fronting the

mortuary temple of Amenhotep III, it was once the largest temple built in Egypt and believed to have covered an area larger than Karnak, and show the pharaoh sitting on his throne. Each one cut from a single block of stone and weighing 1000 tonnes.        

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Medinat Habu ( Habu City)

Ramses III's magnificent memorial temple of Medinat Habu is perhape one the most underrated sites on the west bank.

The site was one of the first places in Thebes to be closely associated with the local god Amun. Although the complex is most famous for the funerary temple built by Ramses III, Hatshepsut and Tuthmosis III also constructed buildings here. It measures 320 m in length (East to west) and about 200 m in width (North to south). You can still see the mudbrick remains of the medieval town that gave the site its name (medina means "town" or "city") on top of the enclosure walls.

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The Temple of the Queen Hatshepsut

This Temple is one of ancient Egypt's finest monuments with its unique design. It was designed by Senenmut,

a courtier at Hatshepsut's court and also thought to have been her lover. It is the only temple in Egypt built in terrace formation into the cliff face.  The best-preserved relief are on the middle terrace. The reliefs in the north colonnade record Hatshepsut's divine birth and at the end of it is the chapel of Anubis, with well-preserved colorful reliefs of a disfigured Hatshepsut and Tuthmosis III (her successor) in the presence of Anubis( the jackal), Ra-Horakhty and Hathor( the cow). The wonder fully detailed reliefs in the Punt Colonnade to the left of the entrance tell the story of the expedition to the land of Punt( now Somalia) to collect myrrh trees needed for the incense used in temple ceremonies.

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The Valley of the Kings

the Valley of the Kings is the great Necropolis of millions of years of pharaohs and the place of truth. The valley of the kings has 63 magnificent royal tombs from the New Kingdom period (1550-1069 B.C), all very different from each other. Tutankhamun's tomb is the most famous one in the Valley of the Kings, however his  tomb is the smallest one among 63 tombs in the Valley of the Kings, because of the treasures that were found inside his tomb.

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Luxor Museum

This wonderfull museum has a beautifully displayed collection, from the end of the Old Kingdom right through to the Mamluk Period, mostly gathered from the Theban Temples and necropolis. The ground floor has several masterpieces for different pharaohs. A new wing was opened in 2004, dedicated to the glory of Thebes during the New Kingdom Period. The highlight, and the main reason for the new construction, is the two royal mummies, Ahmos I and the mummy some believe to be Ramses I, beautifully displayed without their wrappings in dark rooms.

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Luxor Temple

Largely built by the New Kingdod pharaohs AmenhotepIII and Ramses II. This Temple is a strikingly

graceful monument in the heart of the modern town. The Temple, also known as the southern sanctuary, was largely built for the Opet Celebrations, when the statues of Amun, Mut and Khonsu were annually reunited during the inundation season with that of Amun of Opet. The opet festival was the most important annual religious festival in Thebes and Ancient Egypt, when the barque shrine of the Theban triad Amun, Mut and Khonsu  were taken in a procession from Karnak Temple to their home at Luxor Temple. The festival lasted two to four weeks during the summer, the second month of the nile flood, and was particularly important during the new kingdom.

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Temples of Karnak

Karnak was the most important place of worship in Egypt during the New Kingdom. It was called Ipet-Sut, meaning "the most esteemed of places". Karnak is an extraordinary complex of sanctuaries, kiosks, pylons and obelisks dedicated to the Theban gods and the grater glory of pharaohs. The site covers over 2 sq km, large enough to contain about 10 cathedrals, while its main structure, the Temple of Amun, is one of the world's largest religious complexes. This was where the god lived on earth, surrounded by the houses of his wife Mut and their son Khonso, two other huge temple complexes on the site

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Luxor

Luxor in ancient Egypt was called Thebes. Luxor is often called the world's greatest open-air museum. With the greatest concentration of ancient Egyptian monuments anywhere in Egypt, Luxor rewards time spent here. You can spend days or weeks around this town. The monuments of Luxor are devided over both banks of the Nile. The East Bank has the city of Luxor, the Temple of Luxor, the Museums, and the Temple complex at Karnak. The West Bank, traditionally the "side of the dead",  is scattered with the monuments and necropolis of ancient Thebes. On the West Bank there are more than 500 tombs belonging to Kings, Queens and Nobles from the 6^th dynasty to the Greco-Roman Period.

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