title: Luxor Museum: The Glory of Ancient Thebes
author:  Abeer El-Shahawy 
description: FARID ATIYA is a writer, photographer and publisher. He is the author of many books on the Red Sea, Sinai, and the monuments of Egypt.
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  # At Abdul Ali's Grave
  
  
  ### E. F. Benson
  
  
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  Luxor, as most of those who have been there will allow, is a place
  
  
  of notable charm, and boasts many attractions for the traveller, chief
  
  
  among which he will reckon an excellent hotel containing a
  
  
  billiard-room, a garden fit for the gods to sit in, any quantity of
  
  
  visitors, at least a weekly dance on board a tourist steamer, quail
  
  
  shooting, a climate as of Avilion, and a number of stupendously
  
  
  ancient monuments for those archeologically inclined. But to certain
  
  
  others, few indeed in number, but almost fanatically convinced of
  
  
  their own orthodoxy, the charm of Luxor, like some sleeping beauty,
  
  
  only wakes when these things cease, when the hotel has grown empty and
  
  
  the billard-marker "has gone for a long rest" to Cairo, when the
  
  
  decimated quail and the decimating tourist have fled northwards, and
  
  
  the Theban plain, Dana 