Edfu and Kom Ombo Temples Day Tour from Luxor

Take advantage of this experience and travel back in time to learn about an important part of the history of the pharaohs with this full-day tour to Aswan from Luxor. Our tour allows you to explore the Temple of Edfu or the Temple of Horus, the second largest temple in ancient Egypt, after Karnak, located in the city of Edfu, Upper Egypt, on the west bank of the Nile River, known during the Hellenistic period as Ἀπόλλωνος πόλις in Greek slang and the temple represents one of the Ptolemies' attempts to build a temple in the style of their ancestors in form and grandeur The construction of the Temple of Horus took about 180 years.

Also, through this visit, you will have the opportunity to know that the temple is dedicated to the main god Horus, identified as Apollo according to the Greek interpretation. In Egypt, it is among the best preserved sanctuaries. Between 237 and 57 B.C., under the Ptolemaic Kingdom, the temple was constructed. Its walls are inscribed with significant information on the language, religion, and mythology of Hellenistic Egypt. In particular, the building texts inscribed on the temple “provide details [both] of its construction and preserve information about the mythological interpretation of the temple and other temples such as Khalk Island.”

After that, we started another adventure to the majestic Kom Ombo Tempel. This temple was built during the reign of Ptolemy VI Philometor, but its decoration was not completed until Roman times, during the reign of Emperor Tiberius. We also find in this temple the same characteristics that we find in other Ptolemaic Egyptian temples in terms of design, architecture, and decoration, but this temple has a special feature result of the local cult of the place, where people worshiped two local gods, Sobek and Horus with falcon heads, and although these two gods were different in origin and character, they coexisted for centuries without mixing or combining with each other.

Although these two gods differed in origin and character, they lived side by side for centuries without mixing or combining with each other, so this temple not only has two neighboring shrines, but also on the axis of each of these two shrines there are doors side by side, in the outer wall and in the walls of the colonnaded halls and beyond, and consequently, the temple is divided into two sections, each of which is dedicated to the worship of one of these two gods.

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