Luxor Temple at night. You begin by facing south ... the 79-foot-tall pylon and a pair of pink granite obelisks. Only one obelisk remains; the French removed the other, which now stands in the ...

A second obelisk originally from the temple now resides in Paris at the eastern end of the Champs-Élysées. Recent travelers said the Temple of Luxor is one of the city's must-see attractions.

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 ...

Next, visit the vast granite Unfinished Obelisk. Abandoned under the reign ... Start your landbound adventure by exploring Luxor Temple. Constructed in roughly 1400 BCE, the site even held a ...