Egypt: Day 6
September 21, 2022
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Above: Carriages arriving at the chaos of the Temple of Edfu, and the standing by the long line of shops we'll have to go by to get into the Temple.
1 to 3 shows the streets of Edfu torn up under construction.
4 and 5 show the wild west, dusty road scenes by the hills around the temple ... almost all the roads are dirt roads.
6 and 7 show the buildings in front of the temple ... #6 is the Ptolemaic birth house of the divine triad of Horus, Hathor and Harsomtus.
8 to 9 show the First Pylon for the Temple of Edfu, and the ceiling of the walkway entering the temple with carvings on the front of Hathor and Horus.
Over the centuries, the temple became buried to a depth of 12 metres (39 ft) beneath drifting desert sand and layers of river silt deposited by the Nile.
Local inhabitants built homes directly over the former temple grounds. Only the upper reaches of the temple pylons were visible by 1798, when the
temple was identified by a French expedition. In 1860 Auguste Mariette, a French Egyptologist, began the work of freeing Edfu temple from the sands.
10 shows Ahmed's drawing in the ground describing the structure where each new room gets smaller and smaller in the temple.
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