The city of edfo is located 132 k.m south of Luxour,The city of edfo was the capital of the second Nome in Upper Egypt since the time of Narmer the Uniter of the two lands and the founder of the first dynasty, The city now belongs to Aswan, The ancient name was Gba, daba, taba, atbo, edfo,The ancient name of the city is referring to the triumph of hours over his uncle Seth which maybe took place h
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The main god of the city is hours of Bhdt which was the religious name of the city or a part of it, always hours of bhdt is represented in the form of the solar-disc with the two wings.The triad of hours of bhdt was hours, hathour, and hours the younger or the Uniter of the two lands, The Greeks when they came to Egypt they identified hours of (bhdt) with their god Apollo and the started to call the city Apolonopolis magna.The temple of the city of edfo is the most famous monument in the city not only in edfo, but also in Egypt.The temple of hours is entirely Ptolemaic temple. In the city of edfo we have some evidence dating back the occupation of the city to the pre-history.The temple of hours at edfo started to be built 237 B.c and it was finished and completed 57 B.C. Ptolemy III he is the one who started building the temple and he declared that he was constructing the temple on a plan originally, made by Imhotep, the builder of the step pyramid at Saqqara.The temple is dedicated to hours and hathour, and their son hours the younger or the uniter of the two lands. The temple of edfo is the best preserved temple and the most complete temple not only form the Ptolemaic period but in all of Egypt, the entire temple corridors, ante chambers, outer walls , sanctuary, inner chambers, outer walls are decorated with wonderfully relief's.The temple is one of the most beautiful and certainly the best preserved monument in fact; there is no other monument in the ancient world match it
