Groups of tourists enter the Luxor Temple in Egypt. - stock photo

Tourists outside the Luxor temple. Court of Amenophis III, Luxor Temple, Luxor, Egypt. Luxor Temple is a large Ancient Egyptian temple complex located on the east bank of the Nile River in the city today known as Luxor and was constructed approximately 1400 BCE. In Luxor there are several great temples on the east and west banks. The two primary cults temples on the east bank are known as the Karnak and Luxor.Unlike the other temples in Thebes, Luxor temple is not dedicated to a cult god or a deified version of the king in death. Instead Luxor temple is dedicated to the rejuvenation of kingship. Luxor, Egypt.