Luxor Temple

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The Luxor Temple complex shouldn't be missed .
This Temple is found in the heart of the city.
it contains nearly one third of the world's antiquities.
Containing some of the famous relics and relief of the famous rulers Rameses II and Queen Hatshepsut, it is one amazing Temple complex.

The Luxor Temple is a large Ancient

Egypt

ian Temple complex located on the east bank of the River Nile in Luxor and was founded in 1400 BCE.
, Known in the

Egypt

ian language as ipet resyt, which means "the southern sanctuary" or “the southern shrine”.

It was called "Ipet resyt," which means the Southern Opet or the Place of the Seclusion of

Amun

-Re.
It was directly connected to the Temple of Karnak.
It was to differentiate between this Temple and Karnak Temple, which was the northern house of

Amun

Ra, the sky god or the ithyphallic fertility god.

The Temple had another group of divinities that included Iunet,

Hathor

, and Atum, whose statues were discovered in a hidden storage pit.

The earliest structures visible today were started by Amenhetep III, and he and Rameses II were responsible for most of the temple’s huge colonnades and courts.
Later, substantial redecorating was undertaken by Ptolemaic and Roman rulers, Christian priests, and Moslem sheikhs.
Throughout its long history, Luxor Temple served as the dwelling-place of an ithyphallic form of the god

Amun

closely associated with ideas of fertility and rejuvenation.

THE RAMESSEUM
The major temples include the Ramesseum - the famous mortuary Temple of 19th-

dynasty

pharaoh Ramses II.
Walking amongst its ruins evokes a special feeling and the fallen colossus shows how even the mighty have fallen.
This was the site from which Belzoni removed the famous bust now in the British Museum.
Belzoni's signature can still be found carved in stone in a couple of places within the Ramesseum, along with those of other well-known personalities of 19th-century

Egypt

.

Medinet Habu
Medinet Habu was Ramses III's attempt to copy his ancestor.
The complex was added to over the centuries following, but it is most impressive and shouldn't be missed.
The artisans from the nearby town of Deir el-Medina moved in to the compound when things got unsafe and the construction of Royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings came to a halt.

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