experts have been carefully cleaning and restoring parts of the 2,000-year-old Temple of Edfu—and shedding new light on what the richly decorated house of worship looked like in its prime.

This piece of papyrus from the mid-Third Century BCE describes a period of famine in Egypt that occurred when the Nile River failed to flood for several years in a row. It was collected from the ...

Situated halfway between Aswan and Luxor, the Temple of Horus in Edfu is one of the largest and best-preserved Ptolemaic temples in Egypt, with many aspects of ancient Egyptian mythology ...