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The best of Aswan
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The Edfu temple
Also known like Horus temple. This temple is better preserved of Egypt. It was constructed in 327 B.C. by Ptolomeo III, although the construction extended up to the reign of Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt, since later they were becoming added. It is, relatively, a young building and better preserved of Egypt. The Edfu temple combines Egyptian elements with Greek elements.
The Temple of Horus is an enormous building, 137 meters long, with a pilono of entry 79 meters wide and 36 high that do of him the second one in size. This temple continues the typical construction, with the presence of the pilono, the courtyard, 2 rooms hipóstilas, a camera of gifts, the central room and the sanctum. It is necessary to emphasize the lighting, with smaller and smaller rooms to block the way of the light gradually up to coming to the almost entire darkness of the sanctum, which receives the lighting only from the axis.
The Philae temple
The main temple of the complex Philae was dedicated to the goddess Isis and its construction in the island Elefantina was tackled during the IIIrd century B.C. Philae was the last bastion of the religion and of the Egyptian hieroglyphic writing. Due to the Aswan prey, it was spending periods plunged. To avoid this situation, the temple was dismantled and reconstructed in a nearby island, Agilkia.
The temple of Kom Ombo
The temple of Kom Ombo is to approximately 48 kilometers to the north of Aswan. It rises on a foreland on the banks of the Nile. Reason was dedicated to the cult of the god Sobek (represented by a head of crocodile), for which in its interior we can see a few mummified crocodiles. In its walls there can be admired also engravings of instruments of the Egyptian medicine.
The Museum of Nubia
It is one of the most modern and interesting Museums of Egypt. It opened its doors in 1997, for the purpose of giving capacity to the objects of art discovered in the archaeological digs. In him, you can visit rooms dedicated to the history of Nubia and to the Coptic and Islamic art, as well as a room in which is told how the traditional housings of the nubios were built.
