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Kom Ombo: Temple of Horus cleared (1895 photo)
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The Temple of Horus at Kom Ombo (photo: de Morgan 1895).


The temple of the falcon god Horus at Kom Ombo lay closely beside the Temple of Sobek, the crocodile god. Both were first built by 150 BC, and added to in Roman times. Most ruins at Kom Ombo similarly date from the Ptolemaic and Roman periods (150 BC-AD 270), although there are some earlier New Kingdom remains from the 18th Dynasty (1550-1307 BC)

The site was first excavated in the 1860s by the French archaeologist Auguste Mariette, and afterwards by de Morgan. This 1895 image by de Morgan shows the temples after they were cleared.
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