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Spotlights bathe the temple walls in orange-red, and the statues of Ramses II appear even more powerful and mysterious than in daylight. Hundreds in white and colourful robes solemnly stride along an avenue flanked by illuminated human and ram sphinxes. Dancers whirl around to music. Egypt is now, more than ever before, beckoning visitors to Luxor with its grand reopening of a magnificent archaeological site on November 25. It wants to show itself as the land of the beginning, as the cradle of civilisation and, above all, as a viable travel destination even during the pandemic. Ancient Egypt s…