Luxour est un village qui a conserve son charme et ce malgre les millions de visiteurs qui inondent ces berges chaque annee.

Luxor has kept its charming village life despite the down pouring of millions of visitors on its banks each year.

Il y a tellement a voir qu'il est difficile de tout faire. Je me suis retrouvee une seconde passion pour l'histoire moi qui croyait que c'etait chose du passe. Un vraie ratte de ruines.

There is so much to see and learn that it is difficult to do it all without risking a heat stroke. I regained my passion for history while over there and couldn't get enough of it.

Des tombeaux de tavaileurs, rois et reines parsement ce decors arides. Certains cachent des oeuvres d'art sur leurs mus, des scenes de la vie journaliere d'il y a 3500 ans.

Tombs of workers, kings and queens fill this mountainous landscape. Many tombs still have incredible artistic drawing on their walls. This one had innumerable scenes from daily life 3500 years ago.

Une terre inesperee pour tout archeologue. Il reste tant a deterrer.

A land rich for any archeologist. There are many more hidden treasures waiting to be uncovered under those piles of sand and stones.

Acotee sur cette colonnade, je me pense en 500 AC. J'aimerais pouvoir lire les hyeroglyphes religieux sculptes dans la pierre et reconnaitre chacuns(e) des dieux et deesses representes(e) sur les colonnes.

Standing in this ocean of columns, I wished that I could read the religious hyeroglyphs sculpted everywhere. I would love to recognize each and every of their gods and godesses busying themselves in their favorite activities.

L'un a New-York, l'autre a Paris, il en reste un a Karnak.

One in New-York, the other on in Paris, there is one left in Karnak.

L'un des nombreux symboles d'une Egypte unifiee, la presence de la fleur du lotus qui croit au Sud du Nil et la plante du papyrus qu'on retrouvait sur les berges du nord.

One of the many symbols that the Egyptians used to symbolize a unified Egypt was the lotus and the pyparus. The lotus flower was growing in the South while the papyrus plant was found in the North.