Egypt’s second-largest ancient temple is getting a facelift. For three years, experts have been carefully cleaning and restoring parts of the 2,000-year-old Temple of Edfu—and shedding new ...

This piece of papyrus from the mid-Third Century BCE describes a period of famine in Egypt that occurred when the Nile River failed to flood for several years in a row. It was collected from the ...

Parts of the text on the exterior walls, for example, also appear in the Ptolemaic temple of Horus in the Upper Egyptian city of Edfu. This is evidence, von Recklinghausen says, that priests ...

Seeing the longest eclipse in our lifetime is just the start of an unforgettable trip to visit remnants of an ancient ...

Situated halfway between Aswan and Luxor, the Temple of Horus in Edfu is one of the largest and best-preserved Ptolemaic temples in Egypt, with many aspects of ancient Egyptian mythology ...