Egypt 2003

Navigation on the Nile started on the evening of November 10 until Edfu...
...the next morning, sunrise. Egypt awakens, already Sublime.

Boat deck

Smile of the coachman who will take a picture of us (below).

In this tourist season, the carriage traffic jam happens quickly!!

In this tourist season, the carriage traffic jam happens quickly!!

It is time to enter the school...

This recent temple dates from the year 237 BC. It is dedicated to the God Horus, represented by a falcon or a winged sun.

Superb pylon, the lower part was covered with sand for a long time. The upper part, not covered, was disfigured by the Copts and served as housing for them...

Horus

After the pylon, a courtyard framed by capitals in the shape of flowers

Wadjet on the left, goddess of Lower Egypt, and Nekhbet on the right, goddess of Upper Egypt, protect Pharaoh, sovereign of the two Egypts.

So that the gods Montu (above) and Anubis (below) would not overshadow their only god, around the first centuries AD, the Copts disfigured certain reliefs.

Birds, numerous here, know how to appreciate these Egyptian reliefs at their true value... (left)

left photo: reliefs representing the procession with Egyptians carrying the solar barque. right photo: Hathor with her cow horns surrounding a solar disk and Mandulis with his crown composed of cow horns, 3 feathers, solar disks and cobras...;

Procession barque in the Naos (the Naos is the room where the statue of the God to be worshiped was stored)