Luxor

Luxor is the greatest museums in the world, there is almost no place where the impact of those effects that fill the soul of awe and wonder and Jellalha pronounce the greatness of the ancient Egyptians and their civilization.
Launched on the shorter name "AST" during the New Kingdom (1085 - 1567) was the capital of Egypt at that time, and then mutated the name to the good described by Homer poet Greeks "City percent Gate" and finally launched the Arab name of the shortest of any city palaces to what they saw of the towering edifices and buildings, and still the temples and tombs and palaces were built by the list in the rocks of limestone and granite to remain on the length of time a witness to the desire for immortality, and is surrounded by markets and hotels

Luxor has a unique character sets it apart from all parts of the world .. You walk in you feel that you combine past and present at one time .. Not without a place in the city of Luxor, the impact of speaking greatness of the ancient Egyptians thousands of years BC

Where the name came to Luxor?
The city of Luxor is part of the ancient city of Thebes, which is called poet Greeks famous "Homer" the name of the city with the percent door for the large number of the monuments and high gates of high-rise and developed the city throughout history, even called the Arabs name Luxor - any city of palaces and after Behrthm palaces and the magnitude of buildings that the city of Luxor remained the seat of power between 2100 to 750 BC Hence, we know the secret desire it feels visitor to the Eternal City effects as high-column high-rise on the banks of the Nile in the genome of organisms on land east where the bright sun the source of life and development and in the city of the dead on the mainland west of the Nile, where the setting of the sun in an orbit deposited life eternal. On the east bank of the Nile at Luxor Temple - Karnak Temple - Luxor Museum on the West Bank of the Nile statue of Memnon - the tombs of the Valley of the Kings and Queens - the funerary temple - tombs of supervision - supervision of graves - graves Deir el-Medina