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.