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The Egyptian name for Thebes was wꜣs.t, "City of the wꜣs", the sceptre of the pharaohs, a long staff with an animal's head and a forked base.From the end of the New Kingdom, Thebes was known in Egyptian as njw.t-jmn, the "City of Amun", the chief of the Theban Triad of deities whose other members were Mut and Khonsu.
The Archaeological Museum of Thebes is a museum in Thebes, ... In 1905 a new building was erected with funds from the Archaeological Society at Athens. The current ...
Archaeological excavations in and around Thebes have revealed a Mycenaean settlement and clay tablets written in the Linear B script, indicating the importance of the site in the Bronze Age. Thebes was the largest city of the ancient region of Boeotia and was the leader of the Boeotian confederacy.
A joint Egyptian-British archaeological mission discovered Thutmose II's tomb in the mount of Thebes area, west of Luxor and the renowned Valley of the Kings. ... 2025, show the inside of a tomb ...
Archaeological site of Dra' Abu el-Naga, view to the west, Luxor West Bank, Egypt. The necropolis of Draʻ Abu el-Naga' (Arabic: دراع ابو النجا) is located on the West Bank of the Nile at Thebes, Egypt, just by the entrance of the dry bay that leads up to Deir el-Bahari and north of the necropolis of el-Assasif.
Luxor [a] is a city in Upper Egypt, which includes the site of the Ancient Egyptian city of Thebes.Luxor had a population of 263,109 in 2020, [2] with an area of approximately 417 km 2 (161 sq mi) [1] and is the capital of the Luxor Governorate.
The Merneptah Stele was discovered in Thebes and is currently housed in Cairo, Egypt The Merneptah Stele , also known as the Israel Stele or the Victory Stele of Merneptah , is an inscription by Merneptah , a pharaoh in ancient Egypt who reigned from 1213 to 1203 BCE.
In October 2019, 30 coffins (3.000 year-old) were uncovered and presented, dating back to the Twenty-second Dynasty by the Egyptian archaeological mission in front of the Hatshepsut Temple. [3] The coffins contain mummies of 23 adult males, five adult females and two children.