On the museum grounds or, more correctly, under the ground is a careful reproduction of the painted scenes discovered in a cave in Altamira in northern prehistoric depictions of animals, dating back 15,000 years and representing man's first illustrations of the world around him.
The work is a reproduction of fifteen thousand year old cave paintings.
In the heart of the modern town, set beside the waters of the Nile, is Luxor Temple, started by Amenophis III in the 18th Dynasty c.1350 b.c. , and embellished by Ramses II in the 19th Dynasty.