Thebes
Thebes, known to the ancient Egyptians as Waset, was an ancient Egyptian city located along the Nile about 800 kilometers south of the Mediterranean. Its ruins lie within the modern Egyptian city of Luxor.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Rémih, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: ancient Egyptian city
- Also known as: “Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis”, “Neyout”, “Niwt”, “Thēbai”, “Thebes, Egypt”, and “Waset”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Avenue of Sphinxes and Botanical Gardens of Thutmose III.
Avenue of Sphinxes
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Avenue of Sphinxes or The King's Festivities Road, also known as Rams Road is a 2.7 km long avenue which connects Karnak Temple with Luxor Temple having been uncovered in the ancient city of Thebes, with sphinxes and ram-headed statues lined up on both flanks. Avenue of Sphinxes is situated 3½ km west of Thebes.
Botanical Gardens of Thutmose III
Photo: Solbaken, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Botanical garden of Thutmose III is found in the temple of Amun-Re, and was constructed during the New Kingdom by Thutmose III. This structure is unique from other architecture found during this time. Botanical Gardens of Thutmose III is situated 3 km northwest of Thebes.
Temple of Akhmenu
The Festival Hall of Thutmose III is an ancient shrine in Luxor, Egypt. It is located at the heart of the Precinct of Amun-Re, in the Karnak Temple Complex. Temple of Akhmenu is situated 3 km northwest of Thebes.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include East Bank and Luxor.
East Bank
Photo: Belmahdy, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The East Bank of Luxor is the central part of Luxor township, centred on the twin foci of the Temple of Luxor and the Temple of Karnak.
Luxor
Photo: Blalonde, Public domain.
Luxor is a city in Upper Egypt. Luxor had a population of 284,952 in 2023, with an area of 43.0 km2 and is the capital of the Luxor Governorate. It is among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world.
El-Assasif
Village
Photo: RolandUnger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
El-Assasif is a necropolis near Luxor on the West Bank at Thebes, Egypt, Upper Egypt. It is located in the dry bay that leads up to Deir el-Bahari and south of the necropolis of Dra' Abu el-Naga'. El-Assasif is situated 8 km northwest of Thebes.
Thebes
- Categories: ancient city, emporia, group of structures or buildings, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Luxor Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
This page is based on GeoNames, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikipedia.
We’d love your help improving our open data sources. Thank you for contributing.
Satellite Map
Discover Thebes from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Thebes” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Thebe, Egipte”
- Afrikaans: “Thebe”
- Albanian: “Teba”
- Amharic: “ጤቤስ”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Diospolis”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Thēbai”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Διοσπολις”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Θηβαι”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Θῆβαι”
- Arabic: “طيبة”
- Arabic: “طيبه”
- Arabic: “نيوت”
- Armenian: “Թեբե”
- Asturian: “Tebes”
- Azerbaijani: “Teben”
- Basque: “Tebas”
- Belarusian: “Горад Фівы”
- Belarusian: “Тэбы”
- Belarusian: “Фівы (Егіпет)”
- Belarusian: “Фівы”
- Bosnian: “Teba”
- Breton: “Teba”
- Breton: “Tebas”
- Breton: “Thebai”
- Bulgarian: “Тива”
- Burmese: “သီးဘီးစ်မြို့ ၊ အီဂျစ်နိုင်ငံ”
- Catalan: “Tebes”
- Catalan: “Waset”
- Cebuano: “Thebes”
- Chinese: “底比斯”
- Chinese: “拉美西乌姆”
- Croatian: “Teba”
- Czech: “Théby”
- Czech: “Vaset”
- Czech: “Veset”
- Czech: “Véset”
- Danish: “Theben”
- Dutch: “Thebais”
- Dutch: “Thebaïs”
- Dutch: “Thebe”
- Egyptian (Ancient): “niwt-imn”
- Egyptian (Ancient): “niwt-rst”
- Egyptian (Ancient): “niwt”
- Egyptian (Ancient): “Waset”
- Egyptian Arabic: “طيبة”
- Egyptian Arabic: “طيبه”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نيوت”
- Esperanto: “Tebo”
- Esperanto: “Teboj”
- Esperanto: “Veseto”
- Estonian: “Sajaväravane Teeba”
- Estonian: “Teeba”
- Finnish: “Teeba”
- Finnish: “Teebe”
- Finnish: “Theba”
- French: “Ouaset”
- French: “Thèbes antique et sa nécropole”
- French: “Thèbes d’Égypte”
- French: “Thebes”
- French: “Thèbes”
- French: “Waset”
- Galician: “Tebas, Exipto”
- Galician: “Tebas”
- Galician: “Thēbai”
- Galician: “Waset”
- Georgian: “თებე”
- German: “Antikes Theben mit seiner Nekropole”
- German: “Pe-Amun”
- German: “T’Ape”
- German: “Thebae”
- German: “Theben”
- German: “Uaset”
- German: “Weset”
- German: “Wêset”
- Greek: “Θήβαι Αιγύπτου”
- Greek: “Θήβαι”
- Greek: “Θήβες”
- Greek: “Νιούτ”
- Greek: “Ουασέτ”
- Hausa: “Thebes, Egypt”
- Hebrew: “nōˀ ˀāmôn”
- Hebrew: “נא אמון”
- Hebrew: “תבאי”
- Hindi: “प्राचीन थेब्स”
- Hungarian: “Théba”
- Icelandic: “Þeba”
- Indonesian: “Thebes, Mesir”
- Indonesian: “Thebes”
- Irish: “An Téibh”
- Italian: “Diospolis Magna”
- Italian: “Tebe d’Egitto”
- Italian: “Tebe”
- Japanese: “テーベ”
- Japanese: “古代都市テーベとその墓地遺跡”
- Kazakh: “Fïvı”
- Kazakh: “Фивы”
- Kazakh: “فىيۆى”
- Korean: “테베”
- Kurdish: “Têbes”
- Latin: “Diospolis Magna”
- Latin: “Thebae”
- Latvian: “Tēbas”
- Lithuanian: “Tėbai”
- Lithuanian: “Vaset”
- Low German: “Pe-Amun”
- Low German: “Theben”
- Low German: “Uaset”
- Low German: “Weset”
- Macedonian: “Теба”
- Maithili: “थेबेस, इजिप्ट”
- Malagasy: “Tebay (Ejipta)”
- Malagasy: “Tebay”
- Malay: “Thebes, Mesir”
- Malay: “Thebes”
- Malayalam: “തീബ്സ്”
- Maltese: “Tebe (Eġittu)”
- Maltese: “Tebe”
- Nepali: “थेबेस, इजिप्ट”
- Nepali: “थेबेस”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Theben”
- Norwegian: “Teben”
- Norwegian: “Theben”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Oaset”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Tebas”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Tèbas”
- Persian: “تبای”
- Persian: “تبس”
- Persian: “شهر تب”
- Persian: “طیبه”
- Polish: “Teby”
- Portuguese: “Nô-Amom”
- Portuguese: “Tebas”
- Romanian: “Teba, Egipt”
- Romanian: “Teba”
- Romanian: “Theba”
- Russian: “Васет”
- Russian: “Некрополь Фив”
- Russian: “Уасет”
- Russian: “Фивы Египетские”
- Russian: “Фивы, город в Египте”
- Russian: “Фивы, Египет | Но | Но-Амон”
- Russian: “Фивы”
- Serbian: “Teba”
- Serbian: “Теба”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Teba”
- Slovak: “Téby”
- Slovak: “Vaset”
- Slovak: “Veset”
- Slovak: “Waset”
- Slovak: “Wéset”
- Slovenian: “Tebe, Egipt”
- Slovenian: “Tebe”
- Spanish: “Antigua Tebas y su necrópolis”
- Spanish: “Tebas Hecatómpila”
- Spanish: “Tebas”
- Spanish: “Thēbai”
- Spanish: “Waset”
- Swahili: “Thebes”
- Swedish: “Tebe”
- Swedish: “Thebe i Egypten”
- Swedish: “Thebe”
- Tagalog: “Thebes”
- Tamil: “தீபை”
- Tamil: “தீப்ஸ்”
- Tatar: “Фивлар борынгы каласы”
- Thai: “ทีบส์”
- Thai: “ธีบส์”
- Turkish: “Teb”
- Turkish: “Thēbai”
- Turkish: “Waset”
- Ukrainian: “Уасет”
- Ukrainian: “Фіви”
- Urdu: “طيبہ”
- Urdu: “طیبہ، مصر”
- Uzbek: “Fiva”
- Vietnamese: “Thebes, Ai Cập”
- Vietnamese: “Thebes”
- Waray (Philippines): “Thebes, Ehipto”
- Waray (Philippines): “Thebes”
- Welsh: “Thebes, Yr Aifft”
- Welsh: “Thebes”
- Wu Chinese: “底比斯 (埃及)”
- Wu Chinese: “底比斯（埃及）”
- Yue Chinese: “底比斯 (埃及)”
- “Tebas”
Places with the Same Name
Discover other places named “Thebes”.
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Munsha’at al ‘Ammārī and Al Ḩubayl.
Nearby Places
Explore places such as Sofitel Mercure Luxor and Jāmi‘ Āl al ‘Ammārī.
Egypt: Must-Visit Destinations
Delve into Cairo, Alexandria, Luxor, and Giza.
Curious Places to Discover
Uncover intriguing places from every corner of the globe.
About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Thebes”. Photo: Rémih, CC BY-SA 3.0.