Land of the Pharaohs

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            Photography by Roy Slovenko

Rush-hour traffic in the Nile River towns

This Temple of Horus, in the river town of Edfu, was built by one of Egypt's Ptolemaic (Greek) rulers in Pharaonic architectural style.

Horus, the falcon-headed son of Osiris, wears the double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt (below).

Temple wall carvings