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Thebes is the Greek name for a city in Ancient Egypt located about 800 km south of the Mediterranean, on the east bank of the river Nile within the modern city of Luxor. The Theban Necropolisis situated nearby on the west bank of the Nile
Thebes was inhabited from around 3200 BC.[2] It was the eponymous capital of Waset, the fourth Upper Egyptian nome. Waset was the capital ofEgypt during part of the 11th Dynasty (Middle Kingdom) and most of the 18th Dynasty (New Kingdom), when Hatshepsut built a Red Sea fleet to facilitate trade between Thebes Red Sea port of Elim,modern Quasir, and Elat at the head of the Gulf of Aqaba. Traders bought frankincense, myrrh, bitumen, natron, fine woven linen, juniper oil and copper amulets for the mortuary industry atKarnak with Nubian gold. With the 19th Dynasty the seat of government moved to the Delta. The archaeological remains of Thebes offer a striking testimony to Egyptian civilization at its height.The name Thebai is the Greek designation of the ancient Egyptian opet "The Karnak Temple".At the seat of the Theban triad of Amun, Mut, and Khonsu, Thebes was known in the Egyptian languagefrom the end of the New Kingdom as niwt-imn, "The City of AmunIn Greek this name was rendered Διόσπολις Diospolis, "City of Zeus", as Zeus was the god whom the Greeks identified with Amun, seeinterpretatio graeca. The Greeks surnamed the city μεγάλη megale, "the Great", to differentiate it from numerous other cities called Diospolis. The Romans rendered the name Diospolis Magna.In modern usage, the mortuary temples and tombs on the west bank of the river Nile are generally thought of as part of Thebes.
In 1979, the ruins of ancient Thebes were inscribed by UNESCO asa World Cultural Heritage site. The two great temples the Valley of the Kings and the Valley of the Queens, Luxor Temple and al-Karnak, are among the great achievements of ancient Egypt.