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At Luxor the show is held at Karnak temple (though Luxor temple is floodlit) where visitors spend half the show seated and the other half wandering among the obelisks and columns as the story unfolds.
In the heart of the modern town, set beside the waters of the Nile, is Luxor Temple, started by Amenophis III in the 18th Dynasty c.1350 b.c. , and embellished by Ramses II in the 19th Dynasty.
The Temple of Karnak sits in the northern half of the town of Thebes (No-Amun or “the City of Amun” in ancient Egyptian) now 2 km (11/2 miles) from modern Luxor.
That the Egyptians recognized an elemental chemistry—the word khem is a very old name for the black alluvium of the Nile delta, and thus, by synecdoche, for Egypt itself—is argued at some length by R. A. Schwaller de Lubizc in his titanic book on the temple of Apet of the South at Luxor, The Temple of Man (Inner Traditions International, Rochester, VT: in press).
Luxor (known to the Ancient Greeks as Thebes) was for many centuries the capital city and religious focal point of Egypt.