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• n  an ancient Egyptian city on the Nile River that flourished from the 22nd century BC to the 18th century BC; today the archeological remains include many splendid temples and tombs
• n  an ancient Greek city in Boeotia destroyed by Alexander the Great in 336 BC
• n  100 thebe equal 1 pula in Botswana

• Thebes
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News & Articles

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Quotes

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• Zahi Hawass in FOXNews
  Only the rich could afford to have sarcophagi made of limestone from Thebes,said Hawass.
• Herodotus in Washington Post
  Herodotus wrote: "At Thebes, which he [Cambyses] passed through on his way, he detached from his main body some fifty thousand men, and sent them against the Ammonians with orders to carry the people into captivity, and burn the oracle of Jupiter. ....
• Henry David Thoreau in Hartford Courant
  I love better to see stones in place,Thoreau wrote. "The grandeur of Thebes was a vulgar grandeur. More sensible is a rod of stone wall that bounds an honest man's field than a hundred-gated Thebes that has wandered farther from the true...