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Luxor Egypt - photo wallpapers: Today it is difficult when one arrivers at Luxor to imagine how the great city of Thebes was laid out. For centuries the capital of the Egyptian Kingdom. it was proverbially famous for its wealth ("the city where the rich houses are treasures"), it is the city which Homer in the IX canto of the Iliad referred to as "Thebes of the hundred gates". Just a little village during the Memphis era it was the spot where the god of war Montu was worshipped. Its importance started to increase appreciably from the Xth dynasty onwards, for both political and geographical both political and geographical reasons, until finally it became the capital of the pharaohs of the New Kingdom. The god Amon, part of the triad which also included Mut and Khonsu, was worshipped here with great pomp. Every victory and triumph was celebrated by the construction of new and grandiose temples to the god. Its decline started with the sacking of the city by Ashur-ban-pal in 672 B.C. and it was finally destroyed completely by the Ptolemies. In Roman times it was already just a ruin. As with Memphis a prophesy had been fulfield. "Thebes shall be rent asunder" said Ezechiel (Ezechiel, XXX, 16). The old Egyptian capital is divided in two by a canal; to the south grew up the town of Luxor while to the north the village of Karnak developed. In Luxor the only witness to its splendid past it the grandiose temple that the Egyptians call Amons southern harem", 260 metres long it was started by Amon-Ofis III, enlarged by Tutmose III and finished by Ramses II. It is joined to the temple of Karnak by a long avenue of sphinxes with rams heads which the XXth dynasty substituted for the human head. This road has not been completely uncovered and work is still in progress to restore it in its integrity. The road finished at what effectively constituted the entrace of the temple of Luxor, marked by the great pylon built by Ramses II which was 65 metres wide and was decorated with bas-reliefs representing scenes from the military campaign led by Ramses II against the Hittites, and also with the text of the so-called "Poem of Pentaur" in which the Pharaohs war exploits were celebrated. In front of the pylon there used to stand the two obeliscs of Ramses II but today only one on the left (25 metres high) remains, the other having been carried away to France in 1833 and erected by the engineer Lebas on 25th October 1836 in the centre of the Place de la Concorde in Paris.

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