Example sentences for: thebes

How can you use “thebes” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • They were driven out of Lower Egypt by Ahmose I who founded the 18th Dynasty, ruling over a united Egypt from a capital at Thebes.

  • Luxor (known to the Ancient Greeks as Thebes) was for many centuries the capital city and religious focal point of Egypt.

  • Cairo, not Thebes, is the focus of today’s Egypt.

  • Thebes reached it peak in the New Kingdom era (c.

  • Then, after Alexander’s death in 323 b.c. , Cleomenes took control of the country under the name Ptolemy I. The new city of Alexandria, located on the Mediterranean coast, became the base for the Ptolemaic control of Egypt and the cultural capital of Europe, and Thebes finally lost its influence.


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