* YouTube BBC Documentary on the Luxor Massacre

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So on November 17, 1997 Al-Gama ' a al-Islamiyya killing campaign climaxed with the attack at the Temple of Hatshepsut ( Deir el-Bahri ) in Luxor, in which a band of six men dressed in police uniforms machine-gunned and hacked to death with knives 58 foreign tourists and four Egyptians.

He can do this by either killing Luxor the Moonprince or conquering Xajorkith, the capital citadel of the Free lands.

* On 20 February 2009, an Aerolift Antonov An-12 crashed upon take-off at Luxor International Airport, Egypt due to an engine fire, killing all five crew members on board.

* 1997 – In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by 6 Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut, known as Luxor massacre ( The police then kill the assailants ).

* November 17 – In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by 6 Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut.

Ground was broken for the Luxor in 1992 and officially opened eighteen months later at 4 A. M on October 15, 1993, to a crowd of 10, 000 people.

So Morkin goes off in search of the magical jewel called the Eye of the Moon which enables people to see into the future, so that Luxor can then rest in peace.

DIAB is mostly known for engineering the ABC 80, the first Swedish home computer, manufactured by Luxor AB.

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.

In 1997, members of his group Al-Gama ' a al-Islamiyya conducted two attacks against European visitors to Egypt, including the massacre of 58 tourists at Deir el-Bahri in Luxor.

* 17 November 1997 – Luxor attack, six terrorists attack tourists at Egypts famous Luxor Ruins.

Navigation, particularly, Nile cruisers ferrying tourists from Luxor to Aswan 155 km further upstream, can be held up for hours while vessels negotiate their way through the lock system.

The most bloody attack prior to the Sharm el-Sheikh bombings was the November 1997 Luxor massacre, in which 58 foreign tourists and four Egyptians died.

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.

Tomb WV23, located at the end of the Western Valley of the Kings near modern-day Luxor, was the final resting place of Pharaoh Ay of the 18th Dynasty.

* 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.

During his stay, the Khedive of Egypt, Muhammad Ali Pasha, offered the two obelisks standing at the entrance of Luxor Temple to France in 1829, but only one was transported to Paris where it now stands on the Place de la Concorde.

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 Obelisk of Luxor stands on top of a pedestal that recounts the special machinery and manœuvres that were used to transport it.

Their arrangement, on a north-south axis aligned with the Obelisk of Luxor and the Rue Royale, and the form of the fountains themselves, were influenced by the fountains of Rome, particularly Piazza Navona and the Piazza San Pietro, both of which had obelisks aligned with fountains.

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.

Two images of Wadjet appear on this carved wall in the Hatshepsut Temple at Luxor

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.

Seshat carved on the back of the throne of the seated statue of Rameses II in the Precinct of Amun-Re | Amun temple at Luxor.

File: Luxor temple 16. jpg | Seshat carved on the back of the throne of the seated statue of Rameses II in the Amun temple at Luxor.

The major sites of the middle east that were visited included in Egypt, Dendera, Temple of Edfu, Philae ( it was here that he met his future client William John Bankes on 13 January 1819 ), then returning back up the Nile to Thebes, Luxor and Karnak then back to Cairo and Giza with its pyramids.

Nefertari appears as Ramesses II ’ s consort on many statues in both Luxor and Karnak.

Merenptah commemorated his victories over the Sea Peoples on the walls of the Cachette Court, the start of the processional route to the Luxor Temple.

Highly prominent projects are many temples at Angkor, Cambodia, starting in 1990, including Preah Khan and Phnom Bakheng ; the Château de Chantilly in Chantilly, France ; many structures in Rome, including the Temple of Hercules, Santa Maria Antiqua, and the House of Augustus ; several sites on Easter Island ; various sites at ancient Luxor in Egypt ; Lalibela in Ethiopia ; San Ignacio Miní in Argentina ; the ancient Maya city of Naranjo, Guatemala ; the Segovia Aqueduct in Segovia, Spain ; as well as 25 projects in Venice, Italy, over 20 years.

In early 1896, Petrie and his archaeological team were conducting excavations on a temple in Petrie's area of concession at Luxor.

However, most of Seti's obelisks and statues — such as the Flaminian and Luxor obelisks were only partly finished or decorated by the time of his death since they were completed early under his son's reign based on epigraphic evidence.

Zahi Hawass displays a Ptolemaic statue discovered at Taposiris Magna on May 8, 2010Hawass spearheaded a movement to return many prominent unique and / or irregularly taken Ancient Egyptian artifacts, such as the Rosetta Stone, the bust of Nefertiti, the Dendera zodiac ceiling painting from the Dendera Temple, the bust of Ankhhaf ( the architect of the Khafra Pyramid ), the faces of Amenhotep III's tomb at the Louvre Museum, the Luxor Temple's obelisk at the Place de la Concorde and the statue of Hemiunu, nephew of the Pharaoh Khufu, builder of the largest pyramid, to Egypt from collections in various other countries.

Hotel Luxor, Hamburg's oldest brothel that had operated on this street for 60 years, was closed in 2008.

Ten copies survive today on the temples at Abydos, Karnak, Luxor and Abu Simbel, with reliefs depicting the battle.

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

The site is located on the west bank of the Nile, across the river from modern-day Luxor.

* 17 November 1997 – Luxor massacre at Deir el-Bahri, Luxor, Egypt.

The " Magdalen " papyrus was purchased in Luxor, Egypt in 1901 by Reverend Charles Bousfield Huleatt ( 1863 – 1908 ), who identified the Greek fragments as portions of the Gospel of Matthew ( Chapter 26: 23 and 31 ) and presented them to Magdalen College, Oxford, where they are cataloged as P. Magdalen Greek 17 ( Gregory-Aland < sup > 64 </ sup >) and whence they have their name.