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Luxor Museum

The Luxor Museum may not look impressive from the outside, but it houses representative artifacts from Thebes during its time as the capital of the New Kingdom, telling the world of Thebes' glorious and powerful past. The main building faces the Nile with an imposing presence, surrounded by lush greenery. Located right between Luxor Temple and Karnak Temple, Luxor Museum was completed in 1975 and displays relics unearthed in the Luxor area. The museum has two floors and is modest in size, featuring a gallery-style layout with innovative lighting and display methods. Luxor Museum showcases sculptures, pottery, and jewelry from the New Kingdom period, among which the stone statues are particularly captivating. The exhibits have been carefully selected, and each one is highly representative. In addition, the museum also displays two royal mummies—Ahmose I, founder of the Eighteenth Dynasty, and Ramesses I, founder of the Nineteenth Dynasty—lying quietly in a small, specially created black exhibition hall.

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Unfinished Obelisk

Aswan's unfinished obelisk, a huge pity for ancient Egyptian stonemasons, but an awe-inspiring sight for tourists, is Egypt's heavier monolithic stele . The obelisk is about 42 meters long and weighs about 1168 tons. If the inscription is completed, it will be the heavier monolithic stone building in Egypt. The obelisk was not completed, possibly because a crack appeared in the middle of the stone. The obelisk is still attached to the parent rock in the Northern Quarries, which the ancient Egyptians used to mine granite. This huge obelisk has some interesting nicks and pictograms of dolphins and various birds.

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Banana Island Sara

Banana Island Sara is a small island on the Nile, right next to downtown Luxor. Its Arabic name literally translates to Banana Island. The island is covered in lush banana groves, interspersed with mango, guava, and date palm trees, all nourished by the fertile silt of the Nile. The island retains a strong Egyptian rural atmosphere: farmers work in the fields, donkeys carry goods along dirt paths, and water buffalo graze leisurely along the banks. It is less of an attraction and more like an open-door farmhouse orchard, forming a rare contrast to the temples and tombs of Luxor. The journey itself is an experience: departing from the pier on the side of the Luxor Corniche, you can take a traditional felucca sailboat or choose a faster motorboat. If you have time, the sailboat is quieter and more atmospheric, especially at sunset when the river surface shimmers with golden light. After landing, you can take a 20-minute walk along the shaded dirt paths through the banana groves and listen to the boatman or guide explain the ins and outs of planting and harvesting bananas. You can also sit at a picnic table overlooking the Nile, enjoy a bowl of small bananas freshly picked from the trees—they may be small, but they are noticeably sweeter than those shipped to supermarkets—and pair them with a cup of mint tea or freshly squeezed sugarcane juice.

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Mummification Museum

The Mummy Museum was built in 1997. Egyptian architects cleverly used light to turn the museum on the first basement into a cold tomb, where various animal mummies and coffins are lined up, creating a strange little journey for you. Located on the banks of the Nile, the Mummy Museum is one of the few museums in Egypt with modern equipment. The museum displays items related to mummies. Along the exhibition route, you can learn about the detailed steps of mummy making. At the same time, you can also learn about the Egyptians' understanding of mummies through their descriptions of mummies. The mummies displayed in the museum are mainly animals, such as sheep, cats, baboons, etc. One of the more special ones is the crocodile mummy. In ancient times, there were many crocodiles on the Nile River in Thebes. The ancient Egyptians worshipped crocodiles as gods, so they created the crocodile god Sobek. There are many crocodile mummies in the museum. The long mouth and long tail of the crocodile are wrapped in layers of white cloth, which is very interesting.

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