Featured Article on Kom Ombo
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Featured Article on Kom Ombo


http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/komombo2.htm
Tour Egypt's most recent Featured Article, by Mark Andrews in entitled "Kom Ombo and the Temple of Sobek and Haroeris". This piece provides a good summary of the site, and is accompanied by some excellent photographs and diagrams to illustrate the article, including a rather splendid David Roberts painting of how it looked at the time when he visited. A short bibliography is also included.




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