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  • Edfu

  • Edfu

    Temple of Edfu is an ancient Egyptian temple, located on the west bank of the Nile in Edfu, Upper Egypt. The city was known in Greco-Roman times as Apollonopolis Magna, after the chief god Horus-Apollo. It is one of the best preserved shrines in Egypt. The temple, dedicated to the falcon god Horus, was built in the Ptolemaic period between 237 and 57 BC.
    The site is one of the elements included in the UNESCO Tentative List for World Heritage designation, Pharaonic temples in Upper Egypt from the Ptolemaic and Roman periods.
    UNESCO Tentative List
    Edfu
    by Olaf Tausch, GFDL or CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
    Edfu
    by Rémih, GFDL, CC-BY-SA-3.0 or CC BY-SA 2.5-2.0-1.0, via Wikimedia Commons
    Edfu
    by Rémih, GFDL, CC-BY-SA-3.0 or CC BY-SA 2.5-2.0-1.0, via Wikimedia Commons
    Elevation: 86 m

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    Edfu

    UNESCO Tentative List

    Date of Submission

    2003

    temple

    Ancient Temples

    Location

    Egypt

    Aswan

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    3rd Century BC

    Ptolemaic

    Ptolemaic

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    Ptolemaic Monuments

     

     

     

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