Luxor: One Hundred Gates to Thebes, by Prof. Muhammad Shansaddin Megalommatis

Luqsor: One Hundred Gates to Thebes
Indisputably the world's largest archeological area, Thebes of Egypt, Luqsor, lit. The city of the Camps, gives you always the impression that you have reached destination.

By Prof. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis

Waset was for the ancient Egyptians of the 2nd and the 1st millennia "the city" par excellence, Niout. For the humble visitors, Niout was almost the center of the then world. The palatial district, Deba, altered by the Greek visitors into Thebai, won an unprecedented high place of luxury, imperial authority, knowledge and wisdom, religious and political supremacy, artistic work and grandiose plans. Several of them never came to be true, like the golden obelisk of Hatshepsut, but who says that the Mankind ceased to dream?

Risen to political power only at the middle of the second pre-Christian millennium, Thebes became the synonym of extravagant wealth, probably collected by the Pharaohs of the New Empire in their expeditions in the South, in the vast land of Sudan.