Edfu
Saturday, 17th June. After our final night on the felucca we disembarked
early (7am) at Edfu and visited the Temple of Horus before going to join a
convoy to travel to Luxor.
The temple was rediscovered in the 1850s, and was completely covered by
sand and dirt. There were people living in a village above it! The excavations
of it took 40 years and it has only been fully excavated for about 100 years.
It was the main temple for the cult of Horus, the god whose head is the shape
of a falcon's. It has huge walls around the outside, and unfortunately a lot
of the reliefs were damaged by iconoclasts many centuries ago.
We don't have a lot of photos of this temple as
the batteries in Dan's camera ran out. Jen has photos, but having a conventional
camera, we have to wait for them to be developed and scanned in before we can
put them up here. We will eventually, though.
