A STUDY OF PATTERNS OF WRONG SOCIAL BEHAVIOR AND ITS IMPACT ON ARCHAEOLOGICAL TEMPLES AND BUILDINGS IN LUXOR AREA

This thesis drives at examining patterns of wrong social behavior and its impact on temples and monumental buildings in Luxor area which owns the greatest and most important monumental buildings which is a national wealth and public property as it owns historical buildings, tombs, and unique monumental temples. Arabs call Luxor the city of palaces when they have seen Al-Karnack high temples, Luxor temple, and greatness of Egyptian ancient civilization; as Egypt owns third of the world ancient monuments most of them exists in Luxor city’s two banks of the river where the greatest temples of nobles and honorable kings and queens in Kings and Queens’ Valley and tombs of workers in the Deir El Madina that have astonished the world with art, architecture, historical fragrant and various cultural heritage through various historical ages .
This great valuable heritage should be preserved through raising cultural awareness of individuals and correcting wrong patterns of social behavior that affect negatively these historical buildings. This civilization lasted for thousands of years and still exists, being inherited one generation after another. Awareness should be increased towards conserving this civilization in order to maintain and conserve it through maintenance, reparation, and restoration of buildings and monuments, protecting them also from robbery, destruction, and wreckage caused y closeness of the inhabiting buildings and the agricultural lands which affect society economically, socially, culturally, and scientifically. There should be a habilitation of those historical buildings through shedding light on wrong social behaviors and diffusing cultural awareness.