What is Thebes, Egypt?
{{for|the Greek city of Boeotia|Thebes, Greece}} {{Infobox ancient site | name = Thebes | native_name = Waset<br>Θῆβαι<!--under Ptolemies--> | alternate_name = | image = Thebes, Luxor, Egypt, Medinet Habu.jpg | alt = | caption = | map_type = Egypt | map_alt = | map_size = | relief = | coordinates = {{coord|25|43|14|N|32|36|37|E|display=inline,title}} | location = [[Luxor]], [[Luxor Governorate]], [[Egypt]] | region = [[Upper Egypt]] | type = Settlement | part_of = | length = | width = | area = | height = | builder = | material = | built = | abandoned = | epochs = | cultures = | dependency_of = | occupants = | event = | excavations = | archaeologists = | condition = | ownership = | management = | public_access = | website = <!-- {{URL|example.com}} --> | notes = | designation1 = WHS | designation1_offname = Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis | designation1_type = Cultural | designation1_criteria = I, III, VI | designation1_date = 1979 (3rd [[World Heritage Committee|session]]) | designation1_number = [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/87 87] | designation1_free1name = Region | designation1_free1value = [[List of World Heritage Sites in the Arab States|Arab States]] }} '''Thebes''' ({{polytonic|Θῆβαι}}, ''Thēbai'') was a city in [[Ancient Egypt]] about 800&nbsp;km south of the [[Mediterranean Sea]], on the east bank of the river [[Nile]] ({{coord|25.7|N|32.645|E|type:city}}). It was the capital of ''[[Waset]],'' the fourth [[Upper Egypt]]ian [[Nome (Egypt)|nome]]. == Sources == {{commonscat|Luxor}} {{commonscat|Theban Necropolis}} * Gauthier, Henri. 1925–1931. ''Dictionnaire des noms géographiques contenus dans les textes hiéroglyphiques''. Vol. 3 of 7 vols. Cairo: Imprimerie de l’Institut français d’archéologie orientale du Caire. (Reprinted Osn