Kurna (also Gourna, Gurna, Qurna, Qurnah or Qurneh; Arabic: القرنة) is a group of three closely related villages (New Qurna, Qurna and Sheikh Abd el-Qurna) located on the West Bank of the River Nile opposite the modern city of Luxor in Egypt near the Theban Hills.
New Qurna was designed and built in the late 1940s and early 1950s by Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy to house people living in Qurna which is now uninhabited. New Qurna was added to the 2010 World Monuments Watch List of Most Endangered Sites to bring attention to the site's importance to modern town planning and vernacular architecture due to the loss of much of the original form of the village since it was built.
Kurna (also Gourna, Gurna, Qurna, Qurnah or Qurneh; Arabic: القرنة) is a group of three closely related villages (New Qurna, Qurna and Sheikh Abd el-Qurna)...
The Mortuary Temple of Seti I is the memorial temple (or mortuary temple) of the New Kingdom Pharaoh Seti I. It is located in the Theban Necropolis in...
to the Middle Kingdom: 129 which was discovered by the inhabitants of Kurna and given to French orientalist Émile Prisse d'Avennes at Thebes and published...
Night of the Changing Years tells a story set among the grave robbers of Kurna in Upper Egypt. It remains one of the best examples of neo-realism in Egyptian...
Norse and Old English poetry. A possible early kenning for "gold" (walha-kurna "Roman/Gallic grain") is attested in the Proto-Norse runic inscription on...
RedGrey Team is a rally team based in Kurna, Estonia, established in 2020 by former rally driver Markko Märtin and the 2019 World Rally Champion, Ott...
Qurna may refer to; Kurna, three village areas near the Theban Hills in Egypt al-Qurnah, a city in Iraq Battle of Qurna, fought in, Qurna, Iraq Lake Kournas...
March and tours from one place of the state to another. The Charama and Kurna communities of Kanker district, tribes of Bastar and people of Bhanupratappur...
district of Tallinn on 29 August 2019. The first full-sized store located at Kurna village in Rae Parish (outside of Tallinn area) opened on 25 August 2022...
may refer to; a dance performed by the Tupuri people of Cameroon and Chad Kurna or Gourna, three village areas located near the Theban Hills in Egypt Gournay...
In January, the people of Kanker, and the adjoining areas of Charama and Kurna, celebrate the Madai festival. In the month of February, the festival is...
defunct since 1948 There is a modest network of narrow gauge railways at Kurna, on the west Nile bank opposite Luxor. It has a gauge of 2 ft (610 mm) and...
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