Nile cities include Khartoum, Aswan, Luxor (Thebes), and the GizaCairo conurbation. Athens, Sparta, Corinth, and Thebes. Corinth mediated between Athens and Thebes. Athens, Pylos, Thebes, and Tiryns are also important Mycenaean sites. Wife of Amun at Thebes, where they wielded greater power. Kamose was the final king in a succession of native Egyptian kings at Thebes. Thebes, Athens, Corinth, and Argos. The Theban rulers were apparently descendants of the prince of Thebes, Intef the Elder. A relief sculpture from Egyptian Thebes (c. 1350 BC) shows both boxers and spectators. I founded a new age for a unified Egypt with Thebes as its capital. He supervised a number of excavations at Thebes (now known as Luxor). This was followed by Athens openly entering into an alliance with Thebes against Sparta. Oedipus was the son of Laius and Jocasta, king and queen of Thebes. Mukana by name as a capital city on the level of Thebes and Knossos. The end of Thebes cowed Athens into submission.