You can take a pyramid out of Egypt, but can you take Egypt out of a pyramid? The Luxor hotel-casino, whose giant pyramid is an icon on the Las Vegas Strip, is spending $300 million to tone down ...

the more than 4,000-room resort and casino was designed with an Egyptian theme, hence the name Luxor, a city in Egypt.At its onset, Luxor Las Vegas was billed as "the first pyramid-shaped hotel." ...

Then-Circus Circus Enterprises opened the Luxor on Oct. 15 ... opened as the largest hotel in the world with 5,000 hotel rooms. Its theme was inspired by one of the movie company’s most popular ...

The hotel’s unique design was also the ... By 2007, almost all of Luxor’s grand original theme had been removed. "We're not a British museum with ancient artifacts, we're a casino-resort ...

The peculiar welcome is far from the strangest detail of the Luxor, the Egyptian-themed hotel and casino where the NFL is putting the media up. A history of tragic deaths, reports of paranormal ...