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There are about 14 of the most important Egyptian temples in the city of Luxor. One of its most famous monuments on the eastern bank of the Nile is the Karnak Temple, and there is also the Luxor Temple next to it. At the northern end of the city, there is a group of Karnak Temples that were built over a period of 1,500 years, becoming the largest religious facility in the world. It is famous for its large hall with 134 columns. It contains an artificial lake from the era of the Pharaohs.
 On the western bank of the Nile was the land of the dead, where there were funerary temples and hundreds of tombs. Among the largest and most famous of these funerary temples was the Ramses II Temple of Ramses II, which dates back to the 19th Dynasty, and in its ruins there is a huge statue. Also on the West Bank are the Valley of the Kings, the Valley of the Queens, and Deir el-Medina. There is the funerary temple of Queen Hatshepsut (Temple of Hatshepsut) from the 18th Dynasty in Deir el-Bahri, west of the Nile, which is an architectural masterpiece.

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The era of the New Kingdom was the golden age of Karnak, because the kings of the Eighteenth Dynasty, which was the first dynasty in the Old Kingdom, were interested in worshiping Amun after he was merged with Ra and became Amun-Ra, and they worshiped him as the god of war, and since the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Dynasties were famous for military expansions, attention was necessary. In his temple to take blessings from him in their wars, Amenhotep I was the first to think of building a temple for Amun Ra in that spot, which was the same spot on which the old temple was built in the Middle Kingdom era. Then Tuthmosis I followed him and built the fourth and fifth pylons and two red granite obelisks, one of which still exists. It is still standing, as is the Hypostyle Hall, then Queen Hatshepsut followed, who ruled for 23 years and built the eighth edifice and the two famous obelisks, one of which is still standing and its length exceeds 29 meters.