Kom Ombo

In the south of Edfu city on the Nile, serving as the cultic center for the deities HORUS the Elder
And Sobek, docked about 45 miles north of Aswan, was the ancient temple in town bright floodlights - a fantastic sight!, Kom Ombo was also a major center of Egyptian TRADE with the Red Sea and Nubian (modern Sudanese) cultures. Eighteenth Dynasty (1550-1307), the temple of Haroeris (HORUS) and SOBEK was a double structure, with identical sections, the northern one for Haroeris and the southern one for Sobek. There was also a shrine to HATHOR on the site. The complex was dedicated as well to KHONS. A double temple, presumably under Ptolomaios VI., Started Philo meters (221-205 BC) and supplemented with further Ptolemies and Romans and has been expanded. Along a north-south axis there are two completely symmetrical temples of which the northern Haroeris the falcon-headed god (Horus the Elder) is dedicated was honored during the Southern Temple Sobek, the crocodile god of Egyptian mythology. According to tradition, have settled here at that time, the sacred crocodiles basked on the bank of the Nile. Some few specimens of about 300 mummified crocodiles found in the area are on display in the Hathor shrine near the entrance.