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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 Turin Papyrus Map is an ancient Egyptian map, generally considered the oldest surviving map of topographical interest from the ancient world.It is drawn on a papyrus reportedly discovered at Deir el-Medina in Thebes, collected by Bernardino Drovetti (known as Napoleon's Proconsul) in Egypt sometime before 1824 and now preserved in Turin's Museo Egizio.
Elden Ring sold 13.4 million copies worldwide by the end of March 2022 and 28.6 million by September 2024, making it one of the best-selling video games of all time. [ 99 ] [ 100 ] It was the best-selling game in several regions between February and March 2022, [ 101 ] [ 102 ] and is the fastest-selling Bandai Namco game of all time.
Map of the Topography of Ancient Thebes showing the location of the Cadmea Site of the Cadmea in 2016. In the classical and the early Hellenistic periods, the Cadmea served a similar purpose to the Acropolis of Athens; many public buildings were situated there, and the assemblies of Thebes and the Boeotian Confederacy are thought to have met there.
El Qurn (Arabic: القرن lit. "the horn"), is the famous point (450 m) in the Theban Hills, located on the western bank of the Nile, opposite Thebes, modern Luxor. Its ancient name was Ta Dehent, or "the peak."
The following is a list of burials in the Valley of the Kings, in Thebes (modern Luxor, Egypt) and nearby areas. The numbering system was established by John Gardner Wilkinson in 1821. Wilkinson numbered the 21 tombs known to him (some of which had been open since antiquity) according to their location, starting at the entrance to the valley ...
Medinet Habu (Arabic: مدينة هابو, romanized: Madīnat Hābū; Ancient Egyptian: ḏꜣmwt; Sahidic Coptic: (ⲧ)ϫⲏⲙⲉ, ϫⲏⲙⲏ, ϫⲉⲙⲉ, ϫⲉⲙⲏ, ϫⲏⲙⲓ; Bohairic Coptic: ϭⲏⲙⲓ) [1] is an archaeological locality situated near the foot of the Theban Hills on the West Bank of the River Nile opposite the modern city of Luxor, Egypt.
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