Open Air Museum in Luxor

Off to the left (north) of the first solicit of the Amun Temple Enclosure is Karnak’s open-air museum. The term "museum" and the fact that there is so much else to see in Karnak means that most visitors skim this collecting of stones, statues and shrines, but it is unquestionably worth a look. The good chapels include the White Chapel of Sesostris I, one of the oldest and most stunning monuments in Karnak, which has wonderful Middle Kingdom reliefs; the Red Chapel of Hatshepsut, its red quartzite blocks reassembled in 2000; and the Alabaster Chapel of Amenhotep I. The museum also contains a collection of statuary found throughout the temple complex.

Luxor Sound and Light

Karnak sound and light

Luxor Sound and Light in Karnak show spotlights the dramatic history of ancient Thebes. The show narrates the achievements of some great Pharaohs, with poetic descriptions of the ancient treasures. As visitors walk complete  the complex,  the  pharaohs arise  to  separate the  story of  their  interesting lives,  as  haunting music mysteriously flows through this ancient city. Ancient and poetic voices tell the visitors about the birth  of Karnak  temple  and  the  heroic  achievements  of  the  pharaohs  and  the  god  Amun.  It  is  an enchanting and  magic experience  to  hear to  sound  outcomes and  gaze  at the  magnificent  ruins white during the well-presented show.

El-Moalla

El Mo'alla

El-Moalla is a necropolis southern of Thebes, dating to the First IntermediatePeriod (2134–2040 B.C.E.). Two of the tombs at el-Moalla are famous for their ornaments and  paintings.  These  are  the  tombs  of  Ankhtify and Sobekhotep. El-Moalla was a necropolis doing the area known as Tod. The Egyptians visited it Hefat.

Elkab

El Kab, Temple of Amenhotep III

Elkab, also named Nekheb, is a site  called  Nekheb  by  the  Egyptians and one of the nation’s earliest villages, dating to c. 6000 B.C.E. Elkab is on the east bank of the Nile, 20 miles  south  of  Eana. The  site  is  across  the  river  from Hierakonpolis and is related to nearby Nekhen (modern Kom  el-Ahmar).  Predynastic  palaces,  garrisoned  ramparts, and other interior defences attest to the years of the site,  which  was  devoted  to  the  goddess  Nekhebet, the patroness of Upper Egypt.

Elkab’s  citizens  rose  against  Ahmose (r.  1550–1525 B.C.E.) when he started the Eighteenth Dynasty, and he dotted the siege of the Hyksos capital of Avaris to put down  the  rebellion.  The  nomarchs  of  the  area  were energetic  and  independent.  Their  rock-cut  graves  are  in the  northern  section  of  the  city  and  display  their  vivacious  access  to  life  and  death. King Tuthmosis III (r.1479–1425  B.C.E.)  erected  the  first  chapel  to  Nekhebet, broken  by  his  heir  Amenhotep II. The  temple  of Nekhebet had a series of lower temples involved as well as a devoted lake and a necropolis. A temple observances the god  Thoth was  started  by  Ramses II (r.  1290–1224 B.C.E.).  The  present  Nekhebet  enshrine  dates  to  the  Late Period (712–332 B.C.E.). In the valley of Elkab shrines of Nubian  gods  were  discovered,  and  in  far  wadis  a shrine  to  a  deity  made  Shesmetet and  a  temple  of Hathor and Nekhebet stand in ruins. The rock-cut tombs of  ’Ahmose-Pen Nekhebet, ’Ahmose, son of Ebana, and Paheri are also on the site. Elkab likewise contains El-Hammam, called “the Bath,” which was seen to the reign of RamsesII. His stela is still evident there. Amenhotep III (r. 1391–1353 B.C.E.) also erected a chapel there for the devoted Bark of Nekhebet.

Armant (Erment)

Cleopatra’s temple at Erment

Armant or Erment was a site south of Thebes, called Iun-Mut, “The Pillar of Mut,” or Iun-Montu, “the Pillar of Montu,” in Egyptian; Hermonthis in Greek; also Armant in some lists. Erment was once the capital of the fourth nome of Upper Egypt but was replaced by Thebes as early as the Middle Kingdom(2040–1640 B.C.E.).

The god Montu had a cult  center  at  Erment,  associated  with  the  sacred  bull Buchis. Remains  of  an  Eleventh  Dynasty  (2040–1991 B.C.E.) palace were discovered on the place. A temple from the Eighteenth Dynasty, built by Queen-Pharaoh Hatshepsut (r. 1473–1458 B.C.E.) and reconstructed by TuthmosisIII (r.1479–1425  B.C.E.),  was  also  observed  in  Erment.  The Bucheum, the bull necropolis, is also on the site.

A better temple at Erment dates to the Middle Kingdom with later add-on. Nectanebo II (r.  363–343 B.C.E.) started a similar shrine that was completed by the Ptolemies (304–30 B.C.E.). Cleopatra VII (r. 51–30 B.C.E.) and Ptolemy XV Caesarion (r. 44–30 B.C.E.) constructed a Mammisi, or birth house there, with a dedicated lake.