Top Attractions in Luxor
Explore the headline places in the Luxor cluster.
The Ramesseum, Luxor
The mortuary temple of Ramesses II on Luxor's west bank, a quiet site with Osiride statues and the shattered remains of a granite colossus once about 18 metres tall.
The Mummification Museum, Luxor
A small museum on Luxor's Nile corniche, opened in 1997, that explains how the ancient Egyptians preserved the dead, with animal mummies, canopic jars and embalming tools.
The Avenue of Sphinxes, Luxor
The sphinx-lined road, about 2.7 km long, that joined Karnak and Luxor Temple, reopened in a night parade in November 2021 — what it is and what you actually see.
The Luxor Museum
A compact museum on Luxor's east bank with statues of Amenhotep III, the reassembled Wall of Akhenaten and pieces from Tutankhamun's tomb.
Deir el-Medina
The village of the men who cut and painted the royal tombs — the most completely documented community to survive from the ancient world.
The Valley of the Queens
The southern valley of the Theban necropolis, where queens and royal children were buried — and where the finest painted tomb in Egypt is cut into the rock.
Hot Air Ballooning over Luxor
A sunrise flight over the west bank — temples, tombs, sugar cane fields and the Nile, from a few hundred metres up.
Medinet Habu
The mortuary temple of Ramesses III — the best-preserved painted colour of any large temple in Egypt, and almost always empty.
The Colossi of Memnon
Two enormous seated statues standing in a field — all that is easily visible of what was once the largest temple in Egypt.
The Temple of Hatshepsut
Three colonnaded terraces cut into a cliff wall at Deir el-Bahari — the mortuary temple of the woman who ruled Egypt as king.
Valley of the Kings
A dry desert valley behind the Luxor west bank holding more than sixty rock-cut royal tombs, many with their painted decoration intact.
Luxor Temple
A temple in the middle of a living city, built for a festival rather than a god, and the one major Egyptian site that is better after dark.
Karnak Temple
The largest religious building ever raised, added to by thirty pharaohs across two thousand years — and the only site in Egypt that is genuinely too big to see in one visit.
