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Highlights of
Luxor:
Temple of Luxor: built mostly by the 18th
Dynasty pharaoh Amenophis III, but it was Ramses II who later built the entrance pylons
and the great court beyond.
Temple of Amun in Karnak: one dynasty after another added to it, so that
from its founding during the Middle Kingdom to the building of its outermost or First
Pylon during the 25th Dynasty, 1.300 years elapsed.
Colossi of Memnon: two famous colossi, which once guarded the mortuary temple
of Amenophis III.
Valley of the Kings: leaving the cultivation behind, the road climbs towards
the Valley of the Kings, an oven of white sand and sun containing 62 tombs, almost all
belonging to pharaohs of the 18th, 19th, 20th
Dynasties (1570 – 1090 BC). |
