The ancient and holy Egyptian city of Thebes. The chief relics
of its former glory are the great Temple of Karnak and the
smaller Luxor Temple on the east bank of the Nile, and the
Valley of the Kings, the mortuary temple of Queen Hatshepsut
(still a design triumph), the Ramesseum and others on the West
Bank.  In 1997, November 17, 58 international tourists and 4
Egyptians were killed by Islamic terrorists in Luxor. It
happened in the morning at the parking lot of the Temple of
Hatshepsut (Deir al-Bahri)on the westbank of the Nile, near the
valley of the kings.  Because Egypts economy depends mostly on
tourism, this was a sad day in history. Tourism dropped, people
from around the world were afraid to come to Egypt. The Egyptian
people did everything over the years to attract the tourists
again; they had the opera "Aida" played at the Pyramids at Giza
(near Cairo) and they offer the tourists huge and beautiful
lightshows at the sphinx and at the Karnak temples (near
Luxor).It helped, because in 1999 figures s