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Luxor is often called the world’s greatest open-air museum, but that comes nowhere near describing this extraordinary place. Nothing in the world compares to the scale and grandeur of the monuments that have survived from ancient Thebes.
ancient corridor and columns of Karnak temple complex in Luxor city Egpyt during sunrise

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