Edfu/Horus Temple

yet another temple in ancient Egypt

Edfu can also be spelled as Idfu or Edfou. It’s situated very close to the city of Luxor. In Edfu lives about 60 thousand people. The Edfu Temple was built between 237 B.C and 57 B.C, and it’s the temple that is best preserved of all temples in Egypt. It doesn’t look very inviting when you first see it from the “big road”, but as soon as you see what’s beyond the entrance, you will not regret the visit for a second. The temple has a lot of beautiful pillars, hieroglyphs, statues and other, classic Egyptian remains. A perfect place for tourists that are fund of egyptian remains, and would love to see the remains of the work of every Pharoah Egypt had had.

Just outside the temple entrance you will find a very nice taverna. Near the area you can also find the Colosses of Memnon. All those site gets you thinking of if ancient Cleopatra every wandered around on those premises? She probably did, during her Egypt Dynasty, checking out the Egypt Kingdom that was in so many ways very impressive. I would love to go back sometime, and then maybe not just running around, taking a lot of photos, but stand still and breathe the old, Eegyptian air and think about what happened within those walls. Cool.

Here are some photos from the Horus temple / Edfu temple. Please visit www.remains.se for more photos.

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