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Luxor Temple stands on the east bank of the Nile in the centre of Luxor and was built mainly by Amenhotep III and Ramesses II from around 1400 BC. A single obelisk and colossal statues of Ramesses II flank its entrance pylon. Inside are colonnaded courts, Roman-era wall paintings and the Abu Haggag Mosque built into the ruins.
The Avenue of Sphinxes is the 2.7 km processional way that linked Karnak with Luxor Temple in ancient Thebes and was used for the Opet Festival. Most of its sphinxes date from Nectanebo I in the 4th century BC; after decades of excavation it reopened in 2021 as a walkway lined with sphinx and ram statues.
Karnak is a vast temple complex on the east bank of the Nile, about 2.5 km north of central Luxor, dedicated mainly to the god Amun. Building began under Senusret I around 1950 BC and continued into the Ptolemaic period. Visitors walk through pylons, courts, obelisks and the Great Hypostyle Hall with its 134 columns.
The Colossi of Memnon are two seated stone statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III on Luxor's west bank, about 18 metres high and carved around 1350 BC. They once stood at the entrance to his mortuary temple, of which little survives above ground. Greek and Roman visitors left more than 100 inscriptions on them.
The Mortuary Temple of Seti I stands at the northern end of Luxor's west bank near Qurna. Seti I began it around 1290 BC and his son Ramesses II completed it; its columned portico and relief-covered halls served the cult of the king and of Amun, and the mudbrick walls of its storerooms are traced around it.
The Ramesseum is the mortuary temple of Ramesses II on Luxor's west bank, built in the 13th century BC. Parts of its hypostyle hall, a row of Osiride pillars and the toppled fragments of a colossal statue of the king remain. Reliefs on the pylons show the Battle of Kadesh, and mud-brick storerooms surround the temple.
Howard Carter House is the domed mudbrick house on Luxor's west bank that the British archaeologist built in 1910 and lived in when he found the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922. It opened as a museum in 2009 and was restored in 2022; a replica of Tutankhamun's burial chamber stands in the grounds.
Medinet Habu is the mortuary temple of Ramesses III on Luxor's west bank, built in the 12th century BC inside a walled enclosure entered through a gatehouse modelled on a Syrian fortress. Its pylons and walls carry deeply cut reliefs of the king's wars, including battles against the Sea Peoples, and some ceilings keep their original colour.
The Tombs of the Nobles at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna on Luxor's west bank are rock-cut tombs of officials of the New Kingdom, dug into the hillside below the Theban cliffs. Visitors can enter tombs such as those of Rekhmire, Sennefer, Ramose, Nakht and Menna, whose painted walls show farming, banquets, crafts and funeral rites.
Deir el-Medina is the village of the craftsmen who cut and decorated the royal tombs of the New Kingdom, on Luxor's west bank, occupied from about 1550 to 1080 BC. Visitors see the stone foundations of some 70 houses, painted tombs of the workers in the hillside and a small Ptolemaic temple of Hathor.
The Temple of Hatshepsut is a mortuary temple at Deir el-Bahari on Luxor's west bank, built for the female pharaoh Hatshepsut in the 15th century BC. Three colonnaded terraces joined by ramps rise against the limestone cliffs. Its reliefs show the expedition to the land of Punt and the queen's divine birth.
The Valley of the Queens is a burial ground on Luxor's west bank where queens, princes and princesses of the 18th to 20th Dynasties were buried between about 1550 and 1130 BC. More than 90 tombs are known in the main wadi. Among them is the painted tomb of Nefertari, wife of Ramesses II, found in 1904 by Ernesto Schiaparelli.
The Valley of the Kings is a desert wadi on Luxor's west bank where rock-cut tombs were dug for pharaohs and nobles of the New Kingdom, from about 1539 to 1075 BC. Some 65 tombs and chambers are known, including that of Tutankhamun. A rotating selection is open, with painted corridors leading down to the burial chambers.
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