Luxor, Egypt - Temple of Karnak at night - postcard c.1960s

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  Luxor - The Temple of Karnak illuminated at Night
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Luxor (pron.: /'l?k.s?r/ or /'l?k.s?r/;^[3] Arabic: ??????? al-Uq?ur?; Egyptian Arabic: Lo??or IPA: ['lo?s?o?]; Saidi Arabic: Log?or ['logs?or]) is a city in Upper (southern) Egypt and the capital of Luxor Governorate. The population numbers 487,896 (2010 estimate),^[2] with an area of approximately 416 square kilometres (161 sq mi).^[1] As the site of the Ancient Egyptian city of Thebes,^[4] Luxor has frequently been characterized as the ""world's greatest open air museum"", as the ruins of the temple complexes at Karnak and Luxor stand within the modern city. Immediately opposite, across the River Nile, lie the monuments, temples and tombs on the West Bank Necropolis, which include the Valley of the Kings and Valley of the Queens. Thousands of tourists from all around the world arrive annually to visit these monuments, contributing a large part towards the economy for the modern city.

The Karnak Temple Complex—usually called Karnak (pron.: /k??r.næk/^[1])—comprises a vast mix of decayed temples, chapels, pylons, and other buildings. Building at the complex began in the reign of Sesostris I in the Middle Kingdom and continued into the Ptolemaic period, although most of the extant buildings date from the New Kingdom. The area around Karnak was the ancient Egyptian Ipet-isut (""The Most Selected of Places"") and the main place of worship of the eighteenth dynasty Theban Triad with the god Amun as its head. It is part of the monumental city of Thebes. The Karnak complex gives its name to the nearby, and partly surrounded, modern village of el-Karnak, some 2.5 km north of Luxor.

type=printed postcards

theme=topographical: rest of the world

sub-theme=africa

county/ country=egypt

number of items=single

period=1945 - present

postage condition=unposted