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Book Details:A fascinating city which lies about seven hundred kilometers south of Cairo, Luxor had been Egypt’s political and religious capital since the era of the mediate kingdom in the year 2000 B.C. Luxor had first been named "WA-SET" meaning "scepter ". Then the name had changed to mean "the city" then to "southern Aoun" ( Heliopolis had been "upper Aoun" at the time), then had become "Amoun city", the Greeks later had called it "Thebai" which had changed to "Tiba" or "Thebes", later the Arabs had called it Luxor. When Herodotus had visited Luxor he had given a detailed description of it, naming it "the city with a hundred doors", he had also described the grandeur of its architecture as had been evident in its temples and monuments. The city of Luxor lies on the eastern bank of the Nile rive, it contains the most famous two temples of ancient Egypt, namely, Karnak temple and Luxor temple. The two temples had been connected by a road with rows on either side of ram headed sphinxes. On the western side of the Nile river is the city of the dead, which contains some of the most important monuments in the world, most of those monuments are funerary temples which had been erected during the era of the new kingdom, of those the most important are "Ramesseum" which had been built by Ramses II and the temple of "Medinet Habu" which had been built during the reign of Ramses III. Behind those two temple, the great kings of ancient Egypt had carved out their tombs in the side of the valley which had become "the valley of the kings". The most famous tomb had later been discovered, intact, that of king Tutankhamoun. At hand in:
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