Qualla: Edfu https://qualla.com/edfu en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 27 Jul 2026 10:40:36 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Edfu https://qualla.com/edfu Edfu: Introduction https://qualla.com/edfu/ When a French expedition reached Edfu in 1798, there was almost nothing to see. Sand and Nile silt had buried the great temple of Horus to a depth of around twelve meters, and a village of mud-brick houses sat on top of the drift, with only the upper edges of the temple's massive gateway breaking the surface. It took until 1860, when the archaeologist Auguste Mariette ordered the sand and houses cleared away, for the full scale of what lay beneath to emerge intact. The desert that had swallowed the temple had also sealed it - and what it gave back is the best-preserved major temple in all of Egypt.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/s/r/q/edfu-wp/ssrq-edfu-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Edfu: The Falcon's House https://qualla.com/edfu/ The Temple of Horus rises from the west bank in near-perfect condition, its great pylon - the twin-towered gateway - standing about 36 meters high, its walls carved from top to bottom with hieroglyphs and reliefs. Guarding the entrance is a statue of Horus himself in the form of ...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/s/r/q/edfu-wp/ssrq-edfu-the-falcons-house.mp3 0:06 2 full Edfu: Built by the Last Pharaohs https://qualla.com/edfu/ Edfu is ancient, but the temple standing today is not. It was built by the Ptolemies, the Greek dynasty descended from one of Alexander the Great's generals, who ruled Egypt for nearly three centuries. Construction began on 23 August 237 BC and continued, on and off, for some 180...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/s/r/q/edfu-wp/ssrq-edfu-built-by-the-last-pharaohs.mp3 0:06 3 full Edfu: The Beautiful Reunion https://qualla.com/edfu/ Once a year, the falcon-god received a visitor. In the Festival of the Beautiful Reunion, the cult statue of the goddess Hathor was carried by boat upriver from her temple at Dendera, a journey of two weeks, to be united with Horus at Edfu in a sacred marriage. Her barque docked ...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/s/r/q/edfu-wp/ssrq-edfu-the-beautiful-reunion.mp3 0:06 4 full Edfu: A Town Older Than Its Temple https://qualla.com/edfu/ Beside the gleaming temple lies a quieter and, to archaeologists, even richer site: the mound of Tell Edfu, the remains of the ancient town. Unglamorous to tourists, it holds more than three thousand years of continuous occupation, stacked up to twenty meters high, from the Old K...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/s/r/q/edfu-wp/ssrq-edfu-a-town-older-than-its-temple.mp3 0:06 5 full Edfu: The Enemies of the Crocodile https://qualla.com/edfu/ Ancient writers noted a peculiar local rivalry. The people of Edfu, the Greek and Roman sources say, were enemies of the crocodile and those who worshipped it - a pointed jab at their downstream neighbors at Kom Ombo, where the crocodile-god Sobek was revered. Such town-by-town a...

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