Edfu · Edfu · Egypt

Edfu Temple

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easy

10/10

best: morning, early afternoon

ancient, monumental, immersive

A local would say...

This temple was so completely buried by sand that medieval villagers built their houses on the roof without knowing what was below.

The most completely preserved ancient Egyptian temple in the country, Edfu's Temple of Horus was built by the Ptolemies over 200 years and buried under sand and rubble for centuries before excavation in the 19th century. The massive pylons, hypostyle halls and inner sanctuary are all intact, giving a rare sense of what ancient Egyptian temples actually looked and felt like.