Winter solstice: Sun aligns with ancient Luxor temple on northern hemisphere's shortest day "Gold Shaw Farm is a dream in the ...

Thousands of local and international visitors flocked to witness the annual astronomical phenomenon.

What is the Luxor Temple made out of What's up with the poems on Japanese donations? What's up with the poems on Japanese ...

This elegant temple rests along the Nile in the heart of the modern town of Luxor (site of ancient Thebes). It was begun by Amenophis III and largely completed by Ramses II, though later builders ...

Some of the greatest monuments on any tour of Egypt bear his stamp: Abu Simbel, Karnak and Luxor Temples, the Ramesseum, and many others. He also commissioned the largest monolithic statue ever ...

I’m at the vast Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, near Luxor, learning that the airbrush back then was a chisel and the victim was the fabled female pharaoh who gave her subjects 20 years of ...

The Karnak Temple in Luxor, Egypt offered a dazzling spectacle as the rising sun aligned perfectly with its main axis.

Though additions to the Temple of Luxor were made by many of Egypt's pharaohs (Tutankhamun, Horemheb and Hatshepsut, to name a few), the bulk of this ancient structure was created in the 14th ...

Archaeologists recently unearthed a chamber that could possibly lead to a 2,100-year-old temple hidden behind cliffs near the city of Sohag in southern Egypt. Researchers believe it is comparable to ...

Getting to the Temple of Hatshepsut, which is located about 17 miles northwest of Luxor on the West Bank, requires driving, hailing a taxi or taking a bus tour. Local tour operators that offer ...

THE mighty sand-coloured ­Philae Temple rises up from Agilkia Island, as if floating on the River Nile. The huge structure is certainly a sight to behold. I had caught a boat to the tiny island ...