Luxor Museum

A visit to the Luxor Museum is a pleasure: it is uncrowded, the exhibits are carefully chosen for their quality as well as their intrinsic worth, and it is small enough that the entire exhibition may be viewed at leisure within a reasonable time. Here, beginning with the red-granite head of Amunhotep III (1386-1349 BCE) at the entrance to the main museum (above), is a sampling of the museum's treasures.

Crocodile god Sobek with Amunhotep III	A young Tuthmosis III	A seated Amunhotep III	Canopic jar lid of Tuyi, wife of Seti I, mother of Ramesses II

Akhenaten's Wall

During the excavation of Karnak Temple, particularly the 9th pylon, a large number of decorated stone blocks were discovered. These stones, called talatat, turned out to have been decoration for the "heretic" pharoah Akhenaten's temple, which was destroyed by his successors. Many of these stones are in museums world-wide, but here in Luxor an entire wall of them has been reconstructed. They show scenes of the pharoah, his wife Nefertiti, and their children plus scenes of village life (above).

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