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To Luxor Desert and Mountains Between Hurgharda and Luxor
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Nile Valley Canals from the Nile River distribute water to a local farmers. Note...
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Nile River
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Nile River
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Nile River
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Luxor - Valley of the Kings
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Luxor - Valley of the Kings
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Luxor - Valley of the Kings Most of the pharaohs of the 18th and 19th Dynasties in the New Kingdom (circa...
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Luxor - Valley of the Kings Nobody lived here, only people who worked in the tombs.....
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Luxor - Valley of the Kings Can you imagine that in 1900s no serious archaeologist believed that...
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Luxor - Valley of the Kings The tomb of Ramses IV
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Luxor - Valley of the Kings The tomb of Ramses IV
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Luxor - Valley of the Kings Everywhere you turn you see entries to pharaohs tombs.
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Luxor - Valley of the Kings
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Luxor - Valley of the Kings .....under the natural gigant Pyramid
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Luxor - Valley of the Kings The Egyptians of the 19th and 20th centuries had few funds for exploration in...
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Luxor - Valley of the Kings
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Luxor - Valley of the Kings The tomb of Ramses VIII
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Luxor - Valley of the Kings
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Luxor - Valley of the Kings The tomb of Ramses VIII
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Luxor - Hatcepsout for Alabaster
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Luxor - Hatcepsout for Alabaster Alabaster secrets of stone have been handed down from generation to...
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Luxor - Temple of Queen Hatshepsut The most dramatic temple in Thebes, carved into a mountain and...
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Luxor - Temple of Queen Hatshepsut Queen Hatshepsut was one of the few Queens of Egypt. Her mortuary temple is...
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Luxor - Temple of Queen Hatshepsut The temple was revealed in the middle of the 19th century, and it was not...
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Luxor - Temple of Queen Hatshepsut
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Luxor - Temple of Queen Hatshepsut All over the temple were found statues and sphinxes of the Queen. Many...
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Luxor - The Colossi of Memnon Memnon, he was a king of Ethiopia son of the dawn god eos, who died in...
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Luxor The Colossi of Memnon
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Luxor The Colossi of Memnon
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Nile River
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Nile River
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Nile River
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Nile River
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Luxor - Temple of Karnak View of the First Pylon. The Temple is is built along two axis running both...
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Luxor - Temple of Karnak Western entrance - an avenue is bordered with two rows of ram-headed sphinxes.
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Luxor - Temple of Karnak Sphinxes at the western approach to temple (north side).
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Luxor - Temple of Karnak
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Luxor - Temple of Karnak The sphinxes consist of statues with lions' bodies and the heads of rams,...
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Luxor - Temple of Karnak
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Luxor - Temple of Karnak View from the inside of the first courtyard. Kiosk of Tahraqa and Ramesses II...
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Luxor - Temple of Karnak Portico and cryosphinxes on the south side.
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Luxor - Temple of Karnak Courtyards is bordered on two sides by a portico with columns built...
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Great Temple of Amun in Karnak in Luxor On the way out, back at first courtyard. This is a construction...
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Luxor - Temple of Karnak Ramesses II statues and part of the second Pylon.
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Luxor - Temple of Karnak View from the inside of the first courtyard. Kiosk of Tahraqa and Ramesses II...
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Luxor - Temple of Karnak The Great Hypostyle Hall was begun during the reign of King Sety I...
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Luxor - Temple of Karnak Sculptured Walls
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Karnak - The Great Hypostyle Hall The north-south axis of the hall provides views which reveal not only the...
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Luxor - Temple of Karnak The Great Hypostyle Hall was begun during the reign of King Sety I...
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Karnak - Giant Obelisk of Thutmose I This is the last of four obelisks which originally stood in front of...
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Luxor - Temple of Karnak
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Luxor - Temple of Karnak
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Luxor - Temple of Karnak
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Luxor - Temple of Karnak Sculptured Walls
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Great Temple of Amun in Karnak in Luxor Top of the obelisk - at ground level. This is the upper part of the southern...
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Luxor - Temple of Karnak Fallen Huge Broken Obelisk
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Luxor - Temple of Karnak
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Karnak - Sacred Lake The sacred lake, where the priests of the temple purified their bodies before...
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Karnak - Giant Scarab This giant beetle was dedicated to aton. The If you go round the beetle once,...
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Luxor - Temple of Karnak
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Luxor - Temple of Karnak
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Luxor - Temple of Karnak
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Luxor - Temple of Karnak
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Luxor - Temple of Karnak
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Luxor - Temple of Karnak
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Luxor - Temple of Karnak Ramesses II statues and part of the second Pylon.
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Luxor - Temple of Karnak
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Luxor - Temple of Karnak Inside of the first courtyard close view of cryosphinxes.
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Luxor - Temple of Karnak
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Luxor - Temple of Karnak Sunset
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