Greek name of an ancient city (
Niut-Amen) in Upper Egypt, on the Nile. Probably founded under the first dynasty, it was the centre of the worship of Amen, and the Egyptian capital under the New Kingdom from about 1550
BC. Temple ruins survive near the villages of Karnak and Luxor, and in the nearby
Valley of the Kings are buried the 18th to 20th dynasty kings, including Tutankhamen and Amenhotep III.
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