Maps of Egypt, based on the 2nd century Claudius Ptolemaeus' mammoth work "Geographia", had been circling in Europe since the late 14th century, all of them showing Thebes' (Diospolis) location.
V letu 2009 je UCLA izdelala spletno stran posvečeno virtualni realnosti digitalnih rekonstrukcij kompleksa v Karnaku in drugih virov.