Temple of Edfu
Ruins · Egypt
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 24.978, 32.873
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: ancient Egyptian temple, located on the west bank of the Nile in Edfu, Upper Egypt
History
The Temple of Edfu is an Egyptian temple located on the west bank of the Nile in Edfu, Upper Egypt. The city was known in the Hellenistic period in Koine Greek as Ἀπόλλωνος πόλις and in Latin as Apollonopolis Magna, after the chief god Horus, who was identified as Apollo under the interpretatio graeca. It is one of the best preserved shrines in Egypt. The temple was built in the Ptolemaic Kingdom between 237 and 57 BC. The inscriptions on its walls provide important information on language, myth and religion during the Hellenistic period in Egypt.