Luxor City

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What Is The Luxor??????

Luxor is a city full of magic and mystery, ready and waiting for you to explore .If you stay here for a while , you will be transported through time, from the days of the ancient pharaohs until today. As you walk through the streets of Luxor, history is tangible; you can almost smell it in the air.


Perhaps more importantly the people here are extremely friendly and always willing to help. In this part of our site we try to help you to find what you need & if you need any information that is not available on this site, please don’t hesitate to contact us.


Please be assured that when you decide to come to our land and its magnificent monuments



The ancient Egyptians calld the city Waset” the city of the sceptre” capital of Egypt’s IV nome. It was the Greeks, many centuries later, who called it Thebas, a name already used by Homer who speaks of “thebas of the Hundred gates” referring not so much to the city’s gates”, but to the impressive pillars of Ipet-isut “the most privileged of seats”, as the nearby temple of Karnak, Egypt’s largest temple built to the glory of Amun “the Unknowable, the king of gods”, was called.


If Thebes, the city of the living built on the Nile’s eastern bank, was the kingdom of Amun, whose earthly son was the pharaoh, on the opposite bank of the Nile, at the feet of the Theban mountain, the sacred mountain, where the sun sets, stretched the capital’s huge royal and civilian necropolis: it was the kingdom of Osiris, “Lord of Afterlife”, called by the Rgyptians imentit en waset, “the West of Thebes” ta geser “the sacred land”.


The west bank did not, however, include only the tombs of the kings of Egypt, of their families and of the leading dignitaries, whose paintings are among the highest expressions of the art of all times, it was also the place where the woeship of the deified living king, beside that of the dead kings, was conducted in the so called temples “of the millions of years” masterpieces of ancient architecture, The royal necropolises, referred to as “Valley of the Kings” and “Valley of the Queens”, the private necropolises, best known by the name of “tombs of the nobles” and the great memorial temples such as Deir el Bahri, the Ramesseum or Medinet Habu, have nowadys become touristic attrctions visited every year by millions of tourists wishing to admire the works of art enclosed in the ancient kingdom of Osiris.