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Roots Earth in Luxor: audio stories about 46 places

Roots Earth has audio stories about 46 places in Luxor, Egypt, in Africa. The Luxor stories are in all seven Roots Earth languages: English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. The app needs no account: open Luxor, pick a place on the city's map of places and play. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection. The stories are written by local people.

The 46 places are listed below in the order the app shows them, and again further down with their coordinates. The lists were taken from the Roots Earth catalogue on 15 September 2026.

Published 16 September 2026. Markdown: luxor.md

The 46 places in Luxor with audio stories

In the order the app shows them.

  1. Karnak Temple Complex
  2. Luxor Temple
  3. Valley of the Kings
  4. Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut
  5. Colossi of Memnon
  6. Valley of the Queens
  7. Medinet Habu
  8. Ramesseum
  9. Deir el-Bahari
  10. Luxor Museum
  11. Avenue of Sphinxes
  12. Mummification Museum
  13. Tomb of Tutankhamun (KV62)
  14. Tomb of Seti I (KV17)
  15. Tomb of Thutmose III (KV34)
  16. Tomb of Ramesses V and VI (KV9)
  17. KV5
  18. KV20
  19. Tomb of Ramesses III (KV11)
  20. Tomb of Ramesses IV (KV2)
  21. Tomb of Ramesses IX (KV6)
  22. Precinct of Amun-Re
  23. Precinct of Mut
  24. Temple of Khonsu
  25. Mortuary Temple of Seti I
  26. Mortuary Temple of Merneptah
  27. Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep III
  28. Abu Haggag Mosque
  29. Winter Palace Hotel
  30. Karnak Open Air Museum
  31. Malkata Palace
  32. Theban Necropolis
  33. Sheikh Abd el-Qurna
  34. Deir el-Medina
  35. Kurna
  36. Dra' Abu el-Naga
  37. El-Khokha
  38. Qurnet Murai
  39. Tomb of Nakht (TT52)
  40. Tomb of Rekhmire (TT100)
  41. Armant
  42. Esna
  43. El-Tod
  44. Luxor International Airport
  45. Luxor (city)
  46. Tomb of Merneptah (KV8)

Is there an audio guide for Karnak Temple Complex?

Yes. Karnak Temple Complex has its audio stories in the Roots Earth app: a short introduction and a deeper story, in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian.

It is place 1 of the 46 Luxor places in the app, at 25.7183, 32.6583. Every one of the other 45 places in the list above has the same two stories.

Roots Earth is not a guided tour: you choose the place on the city's map of places and play its story yourself.

How to use Roots Earth in Luxor

Open Roots Earth and choose Luxor. The city has its own map of places with all 46 of them on it. Tap the place you are standing in front of, or any other, and play its short introduction or its deeper story. You decide what to listen to and in which order.

You can listen in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian, and there is no account. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection.

In full

All 46 places in Luxor, in the app's order, with their coordinates.

All 46 places in Luxor, with coordinates

Every place below has a short introduction and a deeper story in the Roots Earth app, in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. The names, the coordinates (latitude, longitude) and the one line descriptions are the app's own catalogue values of 15 September 2026; a place without a line here has none that this page can print.

1. Karnak Temple Complex

Coordinates
25.7183, 32.6583
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Karnak is the largest religious complex of the ancient world, raised to the god Amun-Re over roughly 2,000 years. Around 30 pharaohs added pylons, obelisks, and the vast Great Hypostyle Hall of 134 columns.

2. Luxor Temple

Coordinates
25.7, 32.63917
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Luxor Temple rises in the heart of the modern city, built mainly by Amenhotep III and Ramesses II from around 1400 before the common era. Its colossi, lone obelisk, and grand colonnade mark a place of worship for over 3,000 years.

3. Valley of the Kings

Coordinates
25.74083, 32.60222
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The Valley of the Kings served as the royal necropolis of the New Kingdom, from around 1539 to 1075 before the common era. Its 65 known rock-cut tombs, including Tutankhamun's, lie hidden beneath the pyramid-shaped peak of al-Qurn.

4. Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut

Coordinates
25.73828, 32.60658
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Built around 1473 to 1458 before the common era for the female pharaoh Hatshepsut, this terraced temple at Deir el-Bahari rises in three colonnaded levels against towering cliffs. Its reliefs record her divine birth and a famous expedition to Punt.

5. Colossi of Memnon

Coordinates
25.72056, 32.61056
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Two seated quartzite giants of Amenhotep III, each about 18 meters tall, have guarded the Theban plain since around 1350 before the common era. Once fronting a vast vanished temple, the northern statue famously seemed to sing at dawn in Roman times.

6. Valley of the Queens

Coordinates
25.7275, 32.59306
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Known in ancient times as Ta-Set-Neferu, the Valley of the Queens held the tombs of royal wives, princes, and princesses. Its many rock-cut chambers include the tomb of Nefertari, celebrated as one of Egypt's most beautifully painted.

7. Medinet Habu

Coordinates
25.71972, 32.60083
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Medinet Habu is the fortified mortuary temple of Ramesses III, built around 1186 to 1155 before the common era. Its towering walls, fortress-like gatehouse, and battle reliefs of the Sea Peoples preserve some of Egypt's best-kept ancient color.

8. Ramesseum

Coordinates
25.72778, 32.61056
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The Ramesseum is the memorial temple of Ramesses II on the Nile's west bank, begun in the 13th century BCE. Its shattered colossus and Osiride pillars inspired Shelley's poem about a vanished king named Ozymandias.

9. Deir el-Bahari

Coordinates
25.7375, 32.6075
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Deir el-Bahari is a dramatic bay in the Theban cliffs holding three royal temples, including Hatshepsut's terraced masterpiece. A nearby hidden cache, found in 1881, once concealed dozens of relocated royal mummies.

10. Luxor Museum

Coordinates
25.7075, 32.64472
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The Luxor Museum, opened in 1975 on the Nile corniche, is prized for its small, beautifully displayed collection. Highlights include statues of Amenhotep III, a reconstructed Akhenaten wall, and two royal mummies.

11. Avenue of Sphinxes

Coordinates
25.70778, 32.64833
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The Avenue of Sphinxes is an ancient processional way running roughly 2. 7 kilometers between Karnak and Luxor temples, lined with rows of sphinxes. After decades of excavation, it was grandly re-inaugurated in 2021.

12. Mummification Museum

Coordinates
25.70222, 32.63972
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The Mummification Museum, opened in 1997 on the Luxor corniche, explains the ancient art of embalming step by step. It displays tools, natron, canopic jars, animal mummies, and the mummy of a high priest.

13. Tomb of Tutankhamun (KV62)

Coordinates
25.74039, 32.60142
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Tomb KV62 in the Valley of the Kings is the burial place of the boy-king Tutankhamun, found nearly intact by Howard Carter in 1922. Small but dazzling, it still holds the pharaoh's mummy today.

14. Tomb of Seti I (KV17)

Coordinates
25.73981, 32.60189
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Tomb KV17 is the burial place of pharaoh Seti the First, the longest and most lavishly decorated in the Valley of the Kings. Discovered by Giovanni Belzoni in 1817, it features a famed astronomical ceiling.

15. Tomb of Thutmose III (KV34)

Coordinates
25.73819, 32.60064
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Cut high in a remote cleft around 1425 BCE for Thutmose III, this tomb hides an oval, cartouche-shaped burial chamber. Its walls carry one of the earliest full Amduat texts, drawn in spare stick-figure style.

16. Tomb of Ramesses V and VI (KV9)

Coordinates
25.74017, 32.60131
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Begun for Ramesses V and enlarged and used by Ramesses VI during his reign, c. 1143–1136 BCE, this deep double tomb is famed for its complete astronomical ceiling, where the sky goddess Nut arches over the sun's journey through day and night.

17. KV5

Coordinates
25.74061, 32.60197
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The largest tomb in the Valley of the Kings, KV5 was built in the 19th Dynasty for the sons of Ramesses II. Its labyrinth of more than 130 chambers was rediscovered by Kent Weeks in the 1990s.

18. KV20

Coordinates
25.73908, 32.60344
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Possibly the earliest royal tomb in the Valley of the Kings, KV20 was cut for the female pharaoh Hatshepsut and her father Thutmose I. Its long curving descent plunges roughly 210 meters into the bedrock.

19. Tomb of Ramesses III (KV11)

Coordinates
25.73989, 32.60108
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Begun by Setnakhte and completed for Ramesses III in the 20th Dynasty, this long tomb is famed for its painted harpists. Open since antiquity, it earned the nicknames Bruce's Tomb and the Harper's Tomb.

20. Tomb of Ramesses IV (KV2)

Coordinates
25.74144, 32.60214
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Built for the 20th Dynasty king Ramesses IV, this straight, well-preserved tomb is matched by an ancient papyrus blueprint now in Turin. Hundreds of Greek, Roman, and Coptic graffiti record its long history as a visited site.

21. Tomb of Ramesses IX (KV6)

Coordinates
25.74044, 32.60186
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Cut for the 20th Dynasty pharaoh Ramesses IX, this wide-entranced tomb runs 105 meters into the hillside. Rushed to completion at the king's death, it preserves vivid ceiling images of the sky goddess Nut.

22. Precinct of Amun-Re

Coordinates
25.71861, 32.65861
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The largest of Karnak's four precincts and the only one fully open to visitors, this vast temple to Amun-Re grew across two thousand years, crowned by its towering Great Hypostyle Hall.

23. Precinct of Mut

Coordinates
25.71182, 32.65547
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South of Karnak's main temple lies this quieter walled precinct dedicated to Mut, consort of Amun, ringed by a crescent sacred lake and once guarded by hundreds of lion-headed Sekhmet statues.

24. Temple of Khonsu

Coordinates
25.71667, 32.65583
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Tucked inside Karnak's Amun-Re precinct, this temple to the moon god Khonsu survives almost complete, a textbook New Kingdom design begun under Ramesses the Third with a pylon, court, and hypostyle hall.

25. Mortuary Temple of Seti I

Coordinates
25.73278, 32.62806
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On the Theban west bank near Qurna stands the memorial temple Seti the First began and his son Ramesses the Great completed, prized for the refined raised relief carving of its surviving sanctuaries.

26. Mortuary Temple of Merneptah

Coordinates
25.725, 32.60657
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Built around 1210 BC for Merneptah, son of Ramesses the Great, this west-bank memorial temple was raised largely from recycled stone and yielded the famous Merneptah Stele, an early mention of Israel.

27. Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep III

Coordinates
25.721, 32.61
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Once the largest mortuary temple in Thebes, Amenhotep the Third's complex was designed by Amenhotep son of Hapu and guarded by the Colossi of Memnon. Earthquake and reuse left it in ruins, now under excavation.

28. Abu Haggag Mosque

Coordinates
25.7, 32.63944
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Perched atop the buried courtyard of Luxor Temple, this living mosque honors the Sufi saint Abu al-Hajjaj. Its old minaret and annual boat-procession festival make it one of the world's most continuously sacred sites.

29. Winter Palace Hotel

Coordinates
25.6969, 32.6365
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A grand riverside hotel opened in 1907 on the Nile in Luxor, famed for its colonial elegance and its link to Lord Carnarvon and the 1922 discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb across the water.

30. Karnak Open Air Museum

Coordinates
25.7195, 32.6574
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An open-air museum in the northwest corner of Karnak's Precinct of Amun-Re, displaying chapels and shrines reassembled from blocks once buried inside later pylons, including the White Chapel of Senusret I and the Red Chapel of Hatshepsut.

31. Malkata Palace

Coordinates
25.71528, 32.59111
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The sprawling mudbrick palace city of pharaoh Amenhotep III on the Theban west bank, built in the 14th century BC. Once Egypt's largest royal residence, it included a festival hall, temple, villas, and a vast artificial harbor.

32. Theban Necropolis

Coordinates
25.73333, 32.6
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The vast city of the dead on the Nile's west bank opposite Luxor, holding the Valley of the Kings, the Valley of the Queens, royal mortuary temples, and the Tombs of the Nobles. Part of the UNESCO World Heritage site since 1979.

33. Sheikh Abd el-Qurna

Coordinates
25.7317, 32.6092
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A hillside on the Theban west bank holding the largest concentration of private tombs in the necropolis, the painted Tombs of the Nobles. Officials of the New Kingdom rest here, and a village long grew over their burials.

34. Deir el-Medina

Coordinates
25.7283, 32.6014
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The remarkably preserved village of the artisans who built the royal tombs, occupied through the New Kingdom. Thousands of written records found here reveal the daily lives, work, and disputes of ordinary ancient Egyptians.

35. Kurna

Coordinates
25.725, 32.62083
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The living villages of the Theban west bank, home to the Qurnawi people. They include Old Qurna built over the Tombs of the Nobles and New Qurna, the celebrated mudbrick settlement designed by architect Hassan Fathy.

36. Dra' Abu el-Naga

Coordinates
25.73528, 32.62056
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A hillside necropolis on the Theban west bank, used almost without a break for roughly 2500 years. Here lay the small pyramids of the 17th Dynasty kings, alongside priests, officials, and ordinary working families.

37. El-Khokha

Coordinates
25.73222, 32.61222
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A round hill in the Theban necropolis ringed with tombs, holding five rare Old Kingdom chapels and more than fifty New Kingdom tombs of priests and stewards, layered across nearly two thousand years of Theban burial.

38. Qurnet Murai

Coordinates
25.72639, 32.60361
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A hill at the southern edge of the Theban necropolis, just below Deir el-Medina. Its tombs held New Kingdom officials, including two viceroys of Kush who governed Nubia for the pharaohs Tutankhamun and Amenhotep the Third.

39. Tomb of Nakht (TT52)

Coordinates
25.73185, 32.60996
In one line
A small 18th Dynasty chapel at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, made for Nakht, a scribe and astronomer of Amun. Its luminous painted walls of banqueting, music, harvest, and marsh hunting are among the most beloved in Thebes.

40. Tomb of Rekhmire (TT100)

Coordinates
25.7314, 32.6074
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An 18th Dynasty chapel at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna for Rekhmire, vizier under Thutmose the Third and Amenhotep the Second. Its painted walls show foreign tribute, craftsmen at work, and the famous duties of the vizier.

41. Armant

Coordinates
25.61667, 32.53333
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A town south of Luxor, the ancient Hermonthis, sacred to the war god Montu. It held a great temple, the Bucheum where sacred bulls were buried, and a birth house begun by Cleopatra the Seventh and Caesarion.

42. Esna

Coordinates
25.3, 32.55
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A Nile town south of Luxor, the ancient Latopolis, built around the Temple of Khnum sunk below the modern streets. Its restored hypostyle hall, busy souq, and river barrage draw travelers off the well-worn route.

43. El-Tod

Coordinates
25.58306, 32.53361
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El-Tod sits about 20 kilometers southwest of Luxor, where a temple to the war god Montu rose over many dynasties. The site is famous for the Tod Treasure, a hoard of gold, silver, and lapis lazuli unearthed in 1936.

44. Luxor International Airport

Coordinates
25.67083, 32.70639
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Luxor International Airport lies about 6 kilometers east of the city and serves as the main gateway for travelers to the Nile temples and the Valley of the Kings. A major upgrade in 2005 raised its capacity toward 8 million passengers a year.

45. Luxor (city)

Coordinates
25.69667, 32.64444
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Luxor is a city of around 285,000 people on the Nile in Upper Egypt, built over ancient Thebes. Often called the world's greatest open-air museum, it splits between the living east bank and the funerary west bank of the kings.

46. Tomb of Merneptah (KV8)

Coordinates
25.74056, 32.60083
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KV8 is the tomb of Merneptah, the 19th Dynasty pharaoh who succeeded Ramesses II. Its long corridor runs about 160 meters into the hillside, and the granite lid of one of his four nested sarcophagi still rests in the burial chamber.

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