Luxor Temple is a large ancient Egyptian temple complex on the east bank of the Nile in the city of Luxor, the ancient Thebes. It was built mainly by the pharaoh Amenhotep III in the fourteenth century BCE and extended by Tutankhamun, Horemheb and later by Ramesses II, who added a great pylon and colossal statues. It was dedicated to the Theban triad of Amun, Mut and Khonsu, and was the setting of the annual Opet Festival, when statues of the gods were carried in procession from nearby Karnak along an avenue of sphinxes. One of the two obelisks that once stood at the entrance now stands in the Place de la Concorde in Paris. A mosque still stands within the temple precincts.
Before and after
- c. 1,500 BCEOrigins of Zoroastrianism
- c. 1,460 BCEEruption of Taupo
- c. 1,400 BCEOlmecas
- from c. 1,400 BCE to 1,301 BCE14th century BC
- c. 1,400 BCEConstruction of Luxor Temple
- c. 1,370 BCEBirth of Nefertiti
- c. 1,370 BCEEruption of Witori
- c. 1,343 BCEBirth of Tutankhamun
- c. 1,324 BCEDeath of Tutankhamun
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