Thebes was once ancient Egypt's capital and the cultic center of its most prominent god: Amun. It also was home to one of the largest temple precincts in the ancient world: Karnak.

Alexander’s destruction of Thebes obscured our knowledge of the ancient city-state. Although Thebes has featured prominently in mythology and other written ancient sources, Alexander’s ...

A historical anecdote explains why the Macedonians and Spartans never went to war when king Philip conquered all of Greece.

Thebes, the city of the god Amon, was the capital of Egypt during the period of the Middle and New Kingdoms. With the temples and palaces at Karnak and Luxor, and the necropolises of the Valley of the ...

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