A sport tourist festival in Luxor

Egyptian Mahmoud khalaf, head of Luxor Supreme Council agreed on holding a tourist and sportive festival the city so as to revive the pharaonic sport games that have been practised by the ancient Egyptians and their grandsons uptill now. All these games were figurated in the form of inscriptions on the walls of the temples.

The festival aims at activating the role of the sport festivals to strive side by side with tourists, in an attempt to boost the tourism flow into Egypt. The festival will last for seven days. Among these games, are wrestling, weightlifting, long jump, swimming, rowing, shooting, fishing and athletics, as well as various kinds of ball games.

"The drawings of these games on the walls will be animated and displayed through media," Khalaf added.