The temple is located on a high hill on the Nile River in the city of Kom OMBO, where the temple was built during the Ptolemaic era, especially during the reign of King Ptolemy VI, and the Romans made drawings and decorations on the walls after that.The Kom Ombo Temple was used in the past as a hospital, in addition to drawings of ancient games during the Pharaonic era, such as the fence game on the wall. The Ptolemies built the Temple of Kom Ombo to worship two gods, Sobek, or the “crocodile god,” and Horus, the “falcon god.” This is why the complex mainly consists of two parallel temples that include all the traditional components of such ancient Egyptian religious structures.And 123 kilometers north of the Egyptian city of Aswan is the (Temple of Edfu) or (Temple of Horus), and although its construction was in the era of the Ptolemies, it remains an open book that monitors the nature of the ancient Egyptian religion that occupied the Ptolemies during the centuries of ruling the country. The construction of the temple, which is described as the most luxurious among the Egyptian temples, began during the reign of Ptolemy III in the year 237 BC. The construction of this temple took about 100 years, as it was completed during the reign of Ptolemy XIII in the first century BC.
DAY TRIP TO KOM OMBO AND EDFU TEMPLES FROM ASWAN Full-Day Tours
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DAY TRIP TO KOM OMBO AND EDFU TEMPLES FROM ASWAN
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Explore the history of the ancient civilization of Egypt, the lives of the Egyptian pharaohs and the secrets of the kings.Our tour starts at ( 8 am ) . Your guide will take you in a private car to ( Kom OMBO Temple ). It includes a large courtyard and contains 16 columns divided into 3 sides, but with the passage of time and the conditions of erosion and climate, only the lower parts remain of the columns. You will see Pharaonic inscriptions on the walls of Emperor Tiberius presenting offerings to the goddess. You will see drawings of the long procession of the kings of the Pharaohs of the Nile goddess. It bears a papyrus plant and a lotus flower to indicate the unity of Egypt, in addition to engravings of servants carrying offerings. You will also see portraits of Emperor Augustus, along with a long strip of hieroglyphic writing, and behind a procession that includes a group of gods as he offers offerings to them in all Aswan temples. You will see inside the courtyard of the temple the outer hall of the columns surrounded by stone curtains, including 2 large doors and 2 small doors, in addition to pharaonic inscriptions of snakes carrying the sun disk on the columns. After that, you will see the inner colonnade hall, which includes 10 columns in two rows with crowns in the form of an open papyrus flower that existed during the Pharaonic era. Then a ceiling with pharaonic inscriptions in good condition, then you will see the Holy of Holies. Isis is sitting on the birthing chair.After that your guide will take you to go to the ( Temple of Edfu ).It consists of a huge edifice, 36 meters high and 80 meters wide, in front of which are two large falcons that were made of granite and symbolize the god Horus. And the drawings were engraved on the edifice depicting the king striking his enemies in front of the god Horus, and there are still gaps in the edifice in which the flagpoles that fluttered at the front of the Temple of Edfu were placed. The Great Gate: It was made of Lebanese cedar wood and inlaid with gold and bronze. The gate is surmounted by a winged sun disk that represents Poplar in my grandmother, and in front of the big gate of the temple of Edfu there are also two huge falcons of granite. The courtyard of the Temple of Edfu is 46 meters long and 42 meters wide. On the walls of the courtyard there are inscriptions and drawings that express the feast of the beautiful meeting that is celebrated annually inside the temple, in which the statue of the god Horus is carried until it is placed in the holy of holies of the Dendera Temple so that the beautiful meeting between the husband Horus and his beautiful wife Hathor takes place.( The tour takes 10 hours )
