Луксор: сто ворот в Фивы - Статья профессора Мухаммеда Шамсаддина Мегаломматиса

Luqsor: One Hundred Gates to Thebes By Prof. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis Indisputably the world’s largest archeological area, Thebes of Egypt, modern Luxor. lit. the city of the Camps, gives you the impression that you have reached destination. Waset was for the ancient Egyptians of the 2nd and the 1st millennia “the city“ par excellence, Niout. For the humble visitors, Niout was almost the center of the then world. The palatial district, Deba, altered by the Greek visitors into Thebai, won an unprecedented high place of luxury, imperial authority, knowledge and wisdom, religious and political supremacy, artistic work and grandiose plans. Several of them never came to be true, like the golden obelisk of Hatshepsut, but who says that the Mankind ceased to dream? Risen to political power only at the middle of the second millennium, Thebes became the synonym of extravagant wealth.