The Temple of Kom Ombo

Prof. Ali Abdel Halim Ali, Head of the Department of Ancient Egyptian Antiquities, Faculty of Archeology, Ain Shams University, and General Supervisor of Academic Publishing at the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities

22 January 2023

01:00 PM

Main Building, Auditorium Hall

The Antiquities Museum and the Zahi Hawass Center of Egyptology, affiliated to the Cultural Outreach Sector at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, organize a lecture entitled “The Temple of Kom Ombo” on Sunday, 22 January 2023; at 1:00 p.m., in the Bibliotheca Alexandrina Main Building, Auditorium Hall. The lecture will be delivered by Prof. Ali Abdel Halim Ali, Head of the Department of Ancient Egyptian Antiquities, Faculty of Archeology, Ain Shams University, and General Supervisor of Academic Publishing at the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.

This temple was dedicated to the worship of two gods, Sobek (the crocodile god) and Horus (the falcon god). Therefore, it consists of two parallel temples that include all the traditional components of ancient Egyptian temples. Kom Ombo Temple was also built on the ruins of a much older temple, “pr sbk”, or the house of the god Sobek, during the Eighteenth Dynasty.