These two enormous sandstone statues are just sitting by the side of the road on the West Bank of the Nile. They originally fronted the enormous temple of Amenhotep III (in the 18th Dynasty), but the temple has been destroyed.

The west bank of ancient Thebes is visited by nearly every tourist in Egypt. This is the location of the beautiful tombs of the Valley of the Kings, the Valley of the Queens and the Valley of the Nobles

Almost nothing remains of the largest temple every built in Egypt — a 700 x 550 meter, 4.2 million sqare foot temple that would have once stood behind the Colossi of Memnon

The Valley of the Queens has nearly 80 tombs, for queens and other wives, and many princes and other royal children. Many nobles and officials were buried here, long before the first queen was buried here.

Tomb of Amun-Hir-khopshef Unfortunately no pictures of this tomb, or the others we visited in the Valley of the Queens. We’ll be better for the Valley of the Nobles and Valley of the Kings Amun-Hir-Khopshef was the oldest son of Ramesses III. He died young and is shown in his tomb as a boy with […]

The fabulous terraced temple here (and the area itself) is called Deir al-Bahari. The Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut is a huge tourist attraction, a tremendous monument to one of the few women in Egyptian history who rose to the throne.

The small chapel of Hathor is on the south, past the colonnade with the reliefs of the trip to Punt is the Chapel to Hathor with a number of intact Hathor-headed columns.

The temple of Tuthmosis III lies directly against the side of the Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut, but almost nothing remains except the stumps of columns and the faint outline of a ramp.

The mortuary temple here belongs to Ramesses II — and with his inimitable style, he has writ his name large on the structure here.