Ancient Luxor
Eleven guides to the temples, tombs and museum on both banks.
Begin with the river. Our east-bank guides cover Karnak, Luxor Temple and Luxor Museum; eight west-bank guides introduce the royal valleys, funerary temples, workers’ village and nobles’ tombs. Group nearby visits, allow time for crossing and check the walking and access details for each place. This is a selected guide to Luxor, not a complete list of its ancient sites.
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Showing 11 of 11 sites
Karnak Temple Complex
Two thousand years of building, rebuilding and royal ambition, gathered around the temples of Amun.
Luxor Temple
A temple of Amun in the heart of today’s city, shaped by royal ritual and the annual Opet festival.
Valley of the Kings
The royal burial landscape of the New Kingdom: rock-cut tombs tucked into a desert valley, separate from the kings’ major commemorative temples.
Temple of Hatshepsut
Terraces set straight into the cliff at Deir el-Bahari — and a reign that was later chiselled off its own walls.
Valley of the Queens
A royal cemetery whose tombs vary greatly in decoration and access. Check which are open before deciding how it fits your day.
Medinet Habu
Colour survives here wherever the roof did — on a temple built by a king fighting to hold Egypt together.
Deir el-Medina
The village of the men who cut the royal tombs. It is the site that makes all the others feel human.
The Ramesseum
Ramesses II’s mortuary temple, largely collapsed — including the colossus that put “Ozymandias” into English.
Colossi of Memnon
Two seated figures of Amenhotep III mark the entrance area of a once vast royal temple.
Luxor Museum
A museum that brings objects from ancient Thebes into focus, from royal sculpture to reconstructed temple reliefs.
Tombs of the Nobles
Private tombs across the Theban hills, where images of work, family and offerings express the status and afterlife hopes of officials and their households.