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 ...

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 ...

The artefacts found at the site included beads, amulets and statuettes, many made of gold, the Egyptian ministry of ... offering or a donation to the temple treasury. The latest find could lead ...