subject: Luxor & Aswan Nile Cruise Hoilday From Cairo By Flight [print this page] 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 Egyptian texts as w3s.t (approximate pronunciation: "Waset"), which meant or "city of the sceptre" and also as t3 ip3t (probably pronounced as "ta ipet" and meaning "the shrine") and then, in a later period, the Greeks called it Thebai and the Romans after them Thebae. Thebes was also known as "the city of the 100 gates", sometimes being called "southern Heliopolis" ('Iunu-shemaa' in Ancient Egyptian), to distinguish it from the city of Iunu 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.t rst, "southern city", as the southernmost of them.Aswan is the ancient city of Swenet, which in antiquity was the frontier town of Ancient Egypt facing the south. Swenet is supposed to have derived its name from an Egyptian goddess with the same name. This goddess later was identified as Eileithyia by the Greeks and Lucina by the Romans during their occupation of Ancient Egypt because of the similar association of their goddesses with childbirth, and of which the import is "the opener". The ancient name of the city also is said to be derived from the Egyptian symbol for trade.
OneSkyToursEgypt representative will guide from your hotel in the evening to take the overnight sleeper train to Luxor" dinner is served on the train".We arrive in Luxor in the early morning and cross the Nile to the West Bank.Here we see the Valley of the Kings, which contains the once hidden tombs of over 62 Pharaohs,including Tutankhamun, Seti I, Ramses III and IV. A discreet entrance in the hillside takes the visitor underground;a series of corridors and ante-chambers leads us down to the burial chamber and sarcophagus In the afternoon we cross back to the east bank of the Nile and visit Luxor Temple and the huge Karnak Temple complex.In the evening we settle in to our accommodation on the cruise boat.
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