Luxor : -
History ...
luxor was the ancient city of thebes,
the great capital of Egypt during the new kingdom , and the glorious city
of the god Amon-Ra .
the city was regarded in the Ancient Egyptain texts as w3s.t [ approximate pronunciation ;''waset''].
which meant '' city of the sceptre'' and also as t3ip3t [ conventionally pronounced as '' taipet '' and meaning
''the shrine '' and then , in a later period, the Greeks called it thebai and the Romans after them thebae .
thebes was slso known as '' the city of the 100 gates '' .
sometimes being called '' southern Heliopolis '' [ ' lunu- shemaa ' in Ancient Egyptian ] ,
to distinguish it from the city of lunu or Heliopolis ,the main place of worship for the god Re 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 [ the other two were Memphis and Heliopolis ] ; it was also called niw.trst ,
'' southern city '' , as the southern most of them .
**welcome to luxor**
