The city sits on what was once the ancient city of Thebes, the capital of unified Egypt for hundreds of years. At the height of Egypt's powers, it was world's center of art, business, and culture.

Art changed again in the reign of Akenhaten ... But like his decision to abandon Thebes and Amen-Re for Amarna and Aten, the changes died with him. The backlash against his actions and ideas ...

Cebes of Thebes (ca. 430-350 B.C.E.) was a member of Socrates’ inner circle. One of the dialogs that has been attributed to him is the Pinax or Tabula, also known as the Tablet of Cebes. In fact, it ...

1925 at Thebes) of statues he unearthed of the female pharaoh Hatshepsut. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Numerous colossal statues of the pharaoh once adorned the terraces of her temple at ...

Ancient Thebes is re-imagined as a present-day African state, strongly reminiscent of Liberia. The play speculates on what would happen if Creon's wife, Eurydice, assumed power in an update of ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, Vol. 23, No. 2, Part 2: The Egyptian Expedition 1925-1927 (Feb., 1928), pp. 3-58 (56 pages) ...

Simply sign up to the Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly ... not to sever us from it. Welcome To Thebes is the most unpleasant play I have seen for some considerable time, and the most riveting.