Djeser-Djeseru

The Luxor Massacre took place on 17 November 1997, at Deir el-Bahri, an archaelogical site located across the River Nile from Luxor in Egypt. Deir el-Bahri is one of Egypt's top tourist attractions, most notably for the spectacular Memorial Temple of 18th-dynasty female pharoah Hatshepsut, known as "Djeser-Djeseru". Image File history File links Tempel der Hatschepsut (Deir el Bahari) Eigene Aufnahme, Februar 2003 File links The following pages link to this file: Deir el-Bahri ... Image File history File links Tempel der Hatschepsut (Deir el Bahari) Eigene Aufnahme, Februar 2003 File links The following pages link to this file: Deir el-Bahri ... November 17 is also the name of a Marxist group in Greece. ... 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Djeser-Djeseru – the focal point of the complex Deir el-Bahri [Arabic دير البحري dayr al-baḥrÄ« (lit. ... For alternative meanings of Nile, see Nile (disambiguation) The Nile in Egypt Length 6 695 km Elevation of the source 1 134 m Average discharge 2 830 m³/s Area watershed 3 400 000 km² Origin Africa Mouth the Mediterranean Basin countries Uganda - Sudan - Egypt The Nile (Arabic: النيل an... The River Nile at Luxor Street market in Luxor See also the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA Luxor is a city in Upper (southern) Egypt. ... Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut Mortuary temples (or memorial temples) were temples constructed adjacent to, or in the vicinity of, royal tombs in the Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom periods of Ancient Egypt. ... The Eighteenth Dynasty is perhaps the most famous of all the dynasties of Ancient Egypt. ... A statue of Hatshepsut commissioned without the false beard. ...

In the mid-morning attack, six Islamist militants from Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya ("The Islamic Group") and Jihad Talaat al-Fath ("Holy War of the Vanguard of the Conquest"), both of which are suspected of having ties to al-Qaeda, massacred 62 people outside the Temple of Hatshepsut. They were using automatic weapons and knives. Armed Egyptian tourist police and military forces arrived soon afterwards and killed all six militants in a gun battle. Islamism is a political ideology derived from the conservative religious views of Muslim fundamentalism. ... Al-Gamaa al-Islamiyya (Arabic for the Islamic Group; also transliterated Gamaat Islamiya, Jamaat al Islamiya, etc. ... Al-Qaeda (Arabic: القاعدة, the foundation or the base) is the name given to a worldwide network of militant Islamist organizations under the leadership of Osama bin Laden. ... Categories: Ancient Egypt stubs | Ancient Egypt | Egypt | Geography of Egypt ...

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak partly blamed Great Britain for the attacks after that country had granted political asylum to Egyptian militant leaders. After the event Mubarak replaced his Interior Minister, General Hassan al-Alfi, with Major General Habib al-Adly. // Monarchs WālÄ«s (Governors) of Egypt, 1805-1867 Muḩammad ‘AlÄ« 1805-1848 IbrāhÄ«m 1848 Muḩammad ‘AlÄ« (restored) 1848-1849 ‘Abbās I 1849-1854 Sa‘īd 1854-1863 Ismā‘īl 1863-1867 Khedives of Egypt, 1867-1914 Ismā‘īl 1867-1879 TawfÄ«q 1879-1892... Hosni Mubarak, President of Egypt Muhammad Hosni Said Mubarak (Arabic : محمد حسنى سيد مبارك ) commonly known as Hosni Mubarak has been the President of the Arab Republic of Egypt since 14 October 1981. ... Power lines leading to a trash dump hover just overhead in El Carpio, a Nicaraguan refugee camp in Costa Rica Under international law, a refugee is a person who is outside his/her country of nationality or habitual residence; has a well-founded fear of persecution because of his/her...

The death toll was made up of 58 foreign tourists--35 Swiss, 10 Japanese, six Britons, four Germans, one French, one Colombian, and a dual-national Bulgarian/Briton. Four Egyptians were killed, three of them police officers and one of them a tour guide. Twelve Swiss, two Japanese, two Germans, one French, and nine Egyptians were among the wounded. The word Britain is used to refer to the United Kingdom (UK) the island of Great Britain which consists of the nations of England, Scotland and Wales sometimes the Roman province called Britain or Britannia The word British generally means belonging to or associated with Britain in one of the...

The tourist industry – in Egypt in general and in Luxor in particular – was seriously affected by the resultant slump in visitors and remained depressed for at least the following five years.

External links

• Tourists massacred at temple. 17 November 1997 (BBC News)
• Bin Laden 'behind Luxor massacre', 13 May 1999 (BBC News)