Luxor: All Data
Luxor is a city in Egypt. This page covers its chronology of mentions across 5,500 years of history, including capitals, battles, events and subdivisions. Part of Phersu Atlas.
1. Lists and Timelines
Luxor: Chronology of Mentions
Note: For polities of antiquity, the listed capital or subdivision capital may also represent one or several of the most important cities of the region.
3499 BC
Capital of Sceptre Land
3000 BC
Subdivision Capital of the Nome of Sceptre Land, part of Ancient Egypt
2699 BC
Mentioned in Event: Split of Ancient Egypt in Lower and Higher Egypt
2130 BC
Capital of Ancient Egypt
1649 BC
Capital of Ancient Egypt
1621 BC
Mentioned in Event: Revolt of Thebes (XVII Dinasty)
1621 BC
Capital of Thebes (Egypt)
1331 BC
Capital of Ancient Egypt
814 BC
Mentioned in Event: Third Intermediate Period
663 BC
Mentioned in: Sack of Thebes
663 BC
Capital of Ancient Egypt
331 BC
Mentioned in Event: Conquest of the Achaemenid Empire
315 BC
Mentioned in Event: Consolidation of the borders after the Second War of the Diadochi
216 BC
Mentioned in Event: Egyptian Revolt (216 BC)
184 BC
Mentioned in Event: Egyptian Revolt (184 BC)
169 BC
Mentioned in Event: Egypt becomes a Seleucid puppet state
168 BC
Mentioned in Event: Revolt of Egypt against the Seleucids
29 BC
Mentioned in Event: Egypt becomes a Roman province
21 BC
Mentioned in Event: War with the Kushites
270 AD
Mentioned in Event: Secession of the Kingdom of Palmyra
273 AD
Mentioned in Event: Reconquest of the Kingdom of Palmyra
286 AD
Mentioned in Event: Early Tetrarchic Period
306 AD
Mentioned in Event: Civil wars of the Tetrarchy
314 AD
Mentioned in Event: Civil wars of the Tetrarchy
325 AD
Mentioned in Event: Civil wars of the Tetrarchy
337 AD
Mentioned in Event: Division of the Empire among the sons of Constantine the Great
353 AD
Mentioned in Event: Roman civil war of 350-353
395 AD
Mentioned in Event: Definitive Division of the Roman Empire
1882 AD
Mentioned in Event: Anglo-Egyptian War
2025 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Governatorate of Al Uqşur, part of Arab Republic of Egypt