Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis' has mentioned 'City' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
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| Ancient Egyptian city | WIKI |
| Thebes (Ancient Greek: xcex98xe1xbfx86xcexb2xcexb1xcexb9, Thxc4x93bai), known to the ancient Egyptians as Waset, was an ancient Egyptian city located along the Nile about 800 kilometers (500xc2xa0mi) south of the Mediterranean. | WIKI |
| It was a cult center and the most venerated city during many periods of ancient Egyptian history. | WIKI |
| The site of Thebes includes areas on both the eastern bank of the Nile, where the temples of Karnak and Luxor stand and where the city was situated; and the western bank, where a necropolis of large private and royal cemeteries and funerary complexes can be found. | WIKI |
| wxeax9cxa3s.t"City of the Scepter"[1] Egyptian hieroglyphs wxeax9cxa3s.t"City of the Scepter" Egyptian hieroglyphs niw.t rs.t"Southern City"[2] Egyptian hieroglyphs iwnw-smxe2x80x99"Heliopolis of the South"[3] Egyptian hieroglyphs | WIKI |
| Thebes is sometimes claimed to be the latinised form of Ancient Greek: xcex98xe1xbfx86xcexb2xcexb1xcexb9, the hellenized form of Demotic Egyptian txeax9cxa3 jpt ("the temple"), referring to jpt-swt; the temple is now known by its Arabic name, Karnak ("fortified village"), on the northeast bank of the city. | WIKI |
| As a natural consequence, the city was laid in a northeast-southwest axis parallel to the contemporary river channel. | WIKI |
| According to George Modelski, Thebes had about 40,000 inhabitants in 2000 BC (compared to 60,000 in Memphis, the largest city in the world at the time). | WIKI |
| By 1800 BC, the population of Memphis was down to about 30,000, making Thebes the largest city in Egypt at the time. | WIKI |
| [11] Historian Ian Morris has estimated that by 1500 BC, Thebes may have grown to be the largest city in the world, with a population of about 75,000, a position which it held until about 900 BC, when it was surpassed by Nimrud (among others). | WIKI |
| The city was at least one kilometre long and 50 hectares in area. | WIKI |
| The city remained as capital during most of the 18th Dynasty (New Kingdom). | WIKI |
| [22] At the city the favored few of Nubia were reeducated with Egyptian culture, to serve as administrators of the colony. | WIKI |
| For a brief period in the reign of Amenhotep III's son Akhenaten (1351xe2x80x931334 BC), Thebes fell on hard times; the city was abandoned by the court, and the worship of Amun was proscribed. | WIKI |
| [24] Ramesses II carried out extensive building projects in the city, such as statues and obelisks, the third enclosure wall of Karnak temple, additions to the Luxor temple, and the Ramesseum, his grand mortuary temple. | WIKI |
| The city continued to be well kept in the early 20th Dynasty. | WIKI |
| This city, the whole of it, I conquered it with the help of Ashur and Ishtar. | WIKI |
| In the following years, Thebes was subdued, and the city turned into rubble. | WIKI |
| Thebes became part of the Roman province of Thebais, which later split into Thebais Superior, centered at the city, and Thebais Inferior, centered at Ptolemais Hermiou. | WIKI |
| [35] Building did not come to an abrupt stop, but the city continued to decline. | WIKI |
| From 25 October 2018 to 27 January 2019, the Museum of Grenoble organized with the support of the Louvre and the British Museum, a three-month exhibition on the city of Thebes and the role of women in the city at that time. | WIKI |