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 Luxor has often been called the world’s greatest open air museum, as indeed it is and much more. The number and preservation of the monuments in the Luxor area are unparalleled anywhere else in the world that knows of.Luxor Monuments:  Medinet HabuThe monumental complex of Medinet Habu comprised of the temple
Ramses III and against which they were the temple of Tuthmosis I and the chapels dedicated to the gods.
The temple of Ramses III is considered one of the most perfect artistically speaking.
It has a length of 150 m and leaving behind it three rooms access the central shrine in which there are two statutory groups, one representing the pharaoh with the god Thot and the other with the goddess Maat.
 RamesseumTemple of Ramses II located on the west bank of the Nile near the giants of Memnon.
The pylons of the temple are decorated with reliefs that tell including the Battle of Qadesh while certainly the most interesting part of this temple, is the fallen colossus of Ramses II.
Entire half 19 meters in height and weighed about 1000Toneladas.
As the British found it destroyed, was not transferred to the British Museum in the early nineteenth century.
 Luxor TempleThe Luxor Temple is dedicated to the god Amun. It was started in the eighteenth Dynasty pharaoh Amenhotep III, while Ramses II was that after ordering the construction of the giants and obelisks placed at the entrance of the temple finish the temple. One of these obelisks is in France.
The temple of Luxor is tied to the temple of Karnak by an avenue of sphinxes with 700 head of sheep (representation of the god Amun) through a walk of just over 2km long, which was used during the feast of OPET during that the pharaoh was to meet with the god Amun to renew their godly powers.
 Temple of KarnakFor centuries the temple of Karnak was the main center of worship of all ancient Egypt.
Devoted mainly to the god Amun and the Triad Theban (Amun, Mut, and Chons).
Hypostyle: his room contains 135 columns of 10meters in height, making it the largest among all the temples existing today.
All pharaohs expanded this huge temple with chapels, one of the most famous is the so-called red chapel belonging to Queen Hatshepsut Pharaoh of which he also kept an obelisk of Queen with a height of 27'5m high.
 Colossus of Memnonthe giants of Memnon, two giant figures of quartzite stone with a height of 18m each. representing the pharaoh Amenhotep III. his role was to preside over the entrance to the funerary temple of pharaoh, which remains closed to the public. The expedition carried in the area to retrieve the funerary temple is under the supervision of a team of Spanish archeologists.  Valley of the KingsValley of the Kings, is on the west bank of Luxor;
hidden among the mountains in the arid desert, we found a total of 62 graves.
Thutmose I up from Ramses II did build his tomb in the valley funeral.
Impressive tombs that retain their original colors dramatically giving color to the written history with their detailed geographic, but it was in 1922 when this valley explored his best treasure found so far, "the tomb of TutAnkamon" with all its treasures and the mummy's pharaoh intact.
 Temple of Hatshepsutfunerary temple of Queen Hatshepsut Pharaoh (daughter of Thutmose I) belonging to the Dynasty XVIII
This funerary temple built on the west bank of ancient Thebes.
Magnificent temple excavated in the interior part of the rock, the exterior has been meticulously restored.
Built by architect Sennut which is said to perform a key role during the reign of Hatshepsut some studies claiming that in addition to real adviser and architect of its importance and recognition in the reign of Pharaoh is due to the fact that it maintained a secret relationship with the Queen Phataoh Hatshepsut.
 EdfuTemple located in the town of Edfu in Upper Egypt, is dedicated to the falcon god Horus.
From the Ptolemaic era, began to build in the year 237a.c although it was not until 57 BC concluded that the continued expansion of the temple.
Now it is the best preserved of all Egypt and the preservation of the temple spectacular make it the second most important after the Temple of Karnak,
although some of its importance to historical levels is because it is considered one of the four temples in which case the legend of Isis, Osiris and Horus.
According to legend was in this place where the battle took place between Seth and Horus in retaliation to the assassination of his father Osiris.
 Kom OmboTemple of the Ptolemaic era.
It is indeed a temple double compound of the temples of Sobek and Haroeris that are fully accurate in its structure.
Retains a Nilometer to measure the water of the Nile river and even a mummified crocodile, but the importance of this temple is due to the reliefs in which surgical instruments are observed (very similar to those used today) and the techniques that were used at the time. |
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