* The Luxor, a hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, United States is unusual due to its pyramidal structure.

It is located on the west bank of the Nile in the Qena Governorate, about 80 kilometres north-west of Luxor.

* The Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas, United States, is a 30-story true pyramid with light beaming from the top.

* c. 1279 BC – 1213 BC — Temple of Amun, Mut and Khons, Luxor, Nineteenth dynasty of Egypt, is built.

At, it is the sixth-largest pyramid in the world behind the Great Pyramid of Giza, Khafre's Pyramid, the Luxor Hotel, the Red Pyramid and the Bent Pyramid.

The brightness emanating from the Luxor lamp room is about twice that which emanates from an equal area of the sun's surface ( about 95, 000, 000 cd / ft2 versus 45, 000, 000 cd / ft2 ).

Thebes (;, Thēbai,, Ṭībah ) is the Greek name for a city in Ancient Egypt located about 800 km south of the Mediterranean, on the east bank of the river Nile within the modern city of Luxor.

The Axe historique | historical axis, looking west from Place de la Concorde ( the Obelisk of Luxor is in the foreground ). The Champs-Elysées seen from the Arc de Triomphe

The zone is also showcased in the trailer, Russians use the square for cover and the Luxor Obelisk is heavily damaged.

New Kingdom Ramesside Pharaohs, in particular, were enamored of Mother Nephthys, as is attested in various stelae and a wealth of inscriptions at Karnak and Luxor, where Nephthys was a member of that great city's Ennead and her altars were present in the massive complex.

Neith also was one of the three tutelary deities of the ancient Egyptian southern city of Ta-senet or Iunyt now known as Esna ( Arabic: إسنا ), Greek: Λατόπολις ( Latopolis ), or πόλις Λάτων ( Polis Laton ), or Λάττων ( Laton ); Latin: Lato ), which is located on the west bank of the River Nile, some 55 km south of Luxor, in the modern Qena Governorate.

In the relief shown to the right, which is on the wall of the Hatshepsut Temple at Luxor, there are two images of Wadjet: one of her as the uraeus sun disk with her head through an ankh and another where she precedes a Horus hawk wearing the double crown of united Egypt, representing the pharaoh whom she protects.

The group is responsible for many acts of violence, including the November 1997 Luxor massacre, in which 58 foreign tourists and four Egyptians were killed.

Pylon ( architecture ) | Pylon of the Temple of Luxor with the remaining obelisk ( of two ) in front ( the second is in the Place de la Concorde in Paris ).

He built important additions to the temples at Luxor and Karnak, and his funerary temple and administrative complex at Medinet-Habu is amongst the largest and best-preserved in Egypt ; however, the uncertainty of Ramesses ' times is apparent from the massive fortifications which were built to enclose the latter.

Nefertari is an important presence in the scenes from Luxor and Karnak.

This account, housed in the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze, is the first known European mention, since ancient Greek and Roman writers, about a whole range of monuments in Upper Egypt and Nubia, including Karnak, Luxor temple, Colossi of Memnon, Esna, Edfu, Kom Ombo, Philae, and others.

The focus of Petrie ’ s work shifted permanently to Palestine in 1926 ( although he did become interested in early Egypt, in 1928 digging a cemetery at Luxor that proved so huge that he devised an entirely new excavation system, including comparison charts for finds, which is still used today ).

The town is named after Karnak, Egypt ( near modern-day Luxor ).

As of 2011, he headlines at the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas and performs various comedy gigs when his show is not playing.

Although the newest pyramid is huge, black and flares at the top, that image is not related to the Luxor Las Vegas hotel, which was built in 1992, several years after the novel's publication.

His mummy was returned to Egypt on October 24, 2003 with full official honors and is on display at the Luxor Museum.

At that time MCP did also sell imported home computers like the TRS-80, the Video Genie, ( another TRS-80 clone ), the Luxor ABC 80 and the Apple II.

A number of licensed versions were released in Europe, including the Luxor Video Entertainment System in Scandinavia ( Sweden ), Adman Grandstand in the UK, and the Saba Videoplay, Nordmende Teleplay and ITT Tele-Match Processor, from Germany and also Dumont Videoplay and Barco Challenger from the Barco / Dumont company in Italy and Belgium.

Bas reliefs in the royal birth rooms at Luxor and other temples also attest to the heavy presence of midwifery in this culture.

A version called ABCenix was also developed for the ABC1600 computer from Luxor.

There also are a few smaller temples and sanctuaries located outside the enclosing walls of the four main parts, as well as several avenues of goddesses and ram-headed sphinxes connecting the Precinct of Mut, the Precinct of Amun-Re, and the Luxor Temple.

He also liberally funded the notable early excavations at Luxor in Egypt, and the American School of Classical Studies for excavation of the Agora and the reconstruction of the Stoa of Attolos, both in Athens ; the American Academy in Rome ; Lingnan University in China ; St. Luke's International Hospital in Tokyo ; the library of the Imperial University in Tokyo ; and to the Shakespeare Memorial Endowment at Stratford-on-Avon.

The casino also featured King Tut ’ s Tomb and Museum, a duplicate of King Tutankhamen ’ s tomb as found in the Valley of the Kings near Luxor, Egypt.

It is also believed that he was incarnated as the Egyptian Pharaoh Amenhotep III ( who constructed the Temple of Luxor to the god Amon ) and also as Leonidas, the King of Sparta, who was killed in 480 BC defending the pass of Thermopylae against the invasion of Greece by Emperor Xerxes I of the Persian Empire.

( The Mahatmas, we are told, are also active around Shigatse and Luxor.

After Bond objects this offer, Mazzard attempts to kill Bond in Washington D. C .. Mazzard also aids Luxor in infiltrating NORAD HQ.

Coburn wrote two full serials for the programme, An Unearthly Child and The Robots ( also known as The Masters of Luxor ).

In the Sinai there are also trips to Mount Sinai, Luxor, Cairo, Jerusalem, and other various sites within Egypt and Israel.

The royal mummies of two pharaohs-Ahmose I and Ramesses I-were also put on display in the Luxor Museum in March 2004, as part of the new extension to the museum, which includes a small visitor centre.

Another avenue of sphinxes, also starting from the entrance, leads 250m west to catch up and flow into the 3km long avenue of sphinxes that connects the Gateway of Ptolemy III Euergetes I of the Precinct of Amun-Re with Luxor Temple.

The joke relies not only upon the fact that Obelix ' name is a pun on the word " obelisk ", but also to the fact that Napoleon's soldiers took a Luxor Obelisk with them to France and that it can still can be viewed in the Place de la Concorde in Paris.

Between 1899 and 1904, he also served as the Chief Inspector of antiquities for the Delta and Middle Egypt ( Howard Carter, who was Chief Inspector at Luxor was his opposite ).

Luxor also includes a web server, a portal engine ( supporting RSS ), a template engine ( Velocity ) and more.

He seems to have spent much of his reign defending his kingdom from Persian reconquest with the occasional help of troops from Athens or Sparta. Sphinx of Nectanebo I at the entrance of the Luxor temple He is also known as a great builder who erected many monuments and temples throughout his long and stable 18-year reign.

* Mandalay Bay Tram connecting the Mandalay Bay, Luxor, and Excalibur

Spun off from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, MGM Resorts International owns and operates several properties, including the Bellagio, the current MGM Grand resort complex, The Mirage, the New York-New York, Circus Circus, Mandalay Bay, The Luxor, Excalibur and the newly completed CityCenter in Las Vegas.

Its major properties included Mandalay Bay, Luxor, Excalibur and Circus Circus, as well as half of the Monte Carlo.

The group subsequently developed the Excalibur in 1990, the Luxor in 1993, and the Mandalay Bay in 1999 for which the group was renamed.

There is a free tram that connects Excalibur to its sister MGM Resorts International properties to the south, Luxor and Mandalay Bay.

The Mandalay Bay Tram connects the resort to its sister properties, Excalibur and Luxor, all three of which were constructed by Circus Circus Enterprises before its sale to MGM.

A shopping mall called Mandalay Place is located between Mandalay Bay and Luxor.