Overview
Luxor is a city in Upper Egypt, which includes the site of the Ancient Egyptian city of Thebes. Luxor had a population of 1,333,309 in 2020, with an area of approximately 417 km2 (161 sq mi) and is the capital of the Luxor Governorate. It is among the oldest inhabited cities in the world.
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Luxor is a city in Upper Egypt, which includes the site of the Ancient Egyptian city of Thebes. Luxor had a population of 1,333,309 in 2020, with an area of approximately 417 km2 (161 sq mi) and is the capital of the Luxor Governorate. It is among the oldest inhabited cities in the world.
Tour details
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Tour Type
Explore
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Price
100$ - 500$
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Categories
Destination
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Capital
Luxor
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Language
English , Arabic
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Currency
$
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Time Zone
UTC+02
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Drives on the
Left
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Calling code
+2
Luxor was the ancient city of Thebes, the capital of Upper Egypt during the New Kingdom, and the city of Amun, later to become the god Amun-Ra. The city was regarded in the ancient Egyptian texts as wAs.t, which meant “city of the sceptre”, and later in Demotic Egyptian as ta jpt , which the ancient Greeks adapted as Thebai and the Romans after them as Thebae.
Thebes was also known as “the city of the 100 gates”, sometimes being called “southern Heliopolis”, to distinguish it from the city of Iunu or Heliopolis, the main place of worship for the god Ra in the north. It was also often referred to as niw.t, which simply means “city”, and was one of only three cities in Egypt for which this noun was used; it was also called niw.t rst, “southern city”, as the southernmost of them.
