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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.
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. It is among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world.
Archaeological excavations in and around Thebes have revealed cist graves dated to Mycenaean times containing weapons, ivory, and tablets written in Linear B.Its attested name forms and relevant terms on tablets found locally or elsewhere include 𐀳𐀣𐀂, te-qa-i, [n 1] understood to be read as *Tʰēgʷai̮s (Ancient Greek: Θήβαις, Thēbais, i.e. "at Thebes", Thebes in the dative ...
Thebes or Thebae may refer to one of the following places: Thebes, Egypt, capital of Egypt under the 11th, early 12th, 17th and early 18th Dynasties; Thebes, Greece, a city in Boeotia; Phthiotic Thebes or Thessalian Thebes, an ancient city at Nea Anchialos; Thebae (Cilicia), a town of ancient Cilicia, now in Turkey; Thebes (Ionia), in Asia Minor
Several dynasties of southern or Upper Egyptian origin, which included the 11th, 12th, 17th, 18th and 25th dynasties, reunified and reinvigorated pharaonic Egypt after periods of fragmentation. [29] For most of Egypt's ancient history, Thebes was the administrative center of Upper Egypt. After its devastation by the Assyrians, the importance of ...
Articles relating to the city of Thebes, Egypt, the main city of the fourth Upper Egyptian nome (Sceptre nome) and the capital of Egypt for long periods during the Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom eras.
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. Discovered by Flinders Petrie at Thebes in 1896, it is now housed at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. [1] [2]
Mentuemhat or Montuemhat (c. 700 BCE – c. 650 BCE) was a rich and powerful Theban official from ancient Egypt who lived during the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt and Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt. He was the Fourth Priest of Amun in Thebes. He is known from many statues and was buried in tomb TT34 of the Theban Necropolis.