Luxor (first settled in the 4th millennium BC) (known in antiquity as Thebes) rises on the Nile over the city that became Egypt’s New Kingdom capital (1550–1070 BC) and the cult center of Amun, where kingship was measured against [Ma’at], the balance of the cosmos. On arrival, ordinary streets and river traffic sit beside an almost unbroken ceremonial landscape: on the East Bank, Karnak and Luxor Temple once formed a processional axis for festival rites and coronations; across the water, the Valleys of the Kings and Queens hold desert tombs built for eternity in paint and stone. Few places so directly braid daily life with monumental deep time.