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Verified places tagged “horus”

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Pylon temples

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🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city

Hierakonpolis (Nekhen) – Kom el-Ahmar

Naqada II–III to Early Dynastic (Predynastic to 1st Dynasty) · Upper Egyptian Naqada (protodynastic)

Protodynastic super-city (c.3800–3000 BCE) — largest Predynastic centre in Egypt (100+ ha at HK desert + floodplain), cult of falcon Horus.

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🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex

Temple of Edfu

Ptolemaic (237–57 BCE) · Ptolemaic Egyptian (Hellenistic Pharaonic)

Best-preserved temple in Egypt: Ptolemaic Temple of Horus built 237–57 BCE (180 years) after plan of Old Kingdom then New Kingdom prototypes, buried by Nile silt and desert sand until re-excavated by…