Egypt
Discovery News (Rossella Lorenzi)
With photo of the heavily restored site.
- Snappy New Museum For Kom Ombo
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine el-Aref) The new Crocodile Museum stands on top of a 15-metre hillock on the doorstep of the Ptolemaic temple on the east bank of the Nile at Kom Ombo, where the ancient Egyptians worshipped the crocodile-headed Sobek, their god...
- More Re Opening Of Medinet Maadi
Gadling Last week a new ancient site opened to the public in Egypt--a temple of the crocodile god Sobek. Medinet Madi is located in Egypt's Faiyum region, a fertile area around a lake at the end of a branch of the Nile called Bahr Yusuf ("The River...
- Madinet Madi Now On The Egypt Tourism Map
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) The Minister of State for Antiquities Affairs Zahi Hawass and Italian Ambassador to Egypt Claudio Pacifico will be celebrating the end of the second phase of the Madinet Madi Development Project in the Fayoum governorate,...
- Daily Photo: Medinet Madi, Faiyum
The Middle Kingdom site of Medinet Madi is a remarkably pretty site in the desert area of the Faiyum depression. It was established by Amenemhat III, built in a pale yellow limestone, and is dedicated to Sobek, Renenutet (wife to Sobek and responsible...
- Discoveries At Medinet Madi, Faiyum
http://tinyurl.com/ongrz (dailystar.com) Work at the lovely Medinet Madi temple has apparently uncovered some new dimensions to the temple complex. The temple dates to the 12th Dynasty, under Amenemhat IV: "An Egyptian archeological team has discovered...
Egypt
Medinet Madi featured crocodile nursery
Discovery News (Rossella Lorenzi)
With photo of the heavily restored site.
Egyptian authorities put another archaeological site on the country’s tourist map yesterday by opening a visitor center at Madinet Madi in the Fayoum region south of Cairo.
Founded during the reigns of Amenemhat III (about 1859-1813 B.C.) and Amenemhat IV (about 1814-1805 B.C.) of the 12th Dynasty, Madinet Madi contains the ruins of the only Middle Kingdom temple in Egypt.
Approached by a paved processional way lined by lions and sphinxes, the temple was dedicated to the cobra-headed goddess Renenutet, and the crocodile-headed god, Sobek of Scedet, patron god of the region.
Now almost forgotten by tourists, the site was swarming with pilgrims in ancient times.
Indeed, 10 Coptic churches dating from the 5th to 7th centuries and the remains of a Ptolemaic temple dedicated to the crocodile god were unearthed in the past decades by renowned Egyptologist Edda Bresciani of Pisa University, who has been excavating the area since 1978.
- Snappy New Museum For Kom Ombo
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine el-Aref) The new Crocodile Museum stands on top of a 15-metre hillock on the doorstep of the Ptolemaic temple on the east bank of the Nile at Kom Ombo, where the ancient Egyptians worshipped the crocodile-headed Sobek, their god...
- More Re Opening Of Medinet Maadi
Gadling Last week a new ancient site opened to the public in Egypt--a temple of the crocodile god Sobek. Medinet Madi is located in Egypt's Faiyum region, a fertile area around a lake at the end of a branch of the Nile called Bahr Yusuf ("The River...
- Madinet Madi Now On The Egypt Tourism Map
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) The Minister of State for Antiquities Affairs Zahi Hawass and Italian Ambassador to Egypt Claudio Pacifico will be celebrating the end of the second phase of the Madinet Madi Development Project in the Fayoum governorate,...
- Daily Photo: Medinet Madi, Faiyum
The Middle Kingdom site of Medinet Madi is a remarkably pretty site in the desert area of the Faiyum depression. It was established by Amenemhat III, built in a pale yellow limestone, and is dedicated to Sobek, Renenutet (wife to Sobek and responsible...
- Discoveries At Medinet Madi, Faiyum
http://tinyurl.com/ongrz (dailystar.com) Work at the lovely Medinet Madi temple has apparently uncovered some new dimensions to the temple complex. The temple dates to the 12th Dynasty, under Amenemhat IV: "An Egyptian archeological team has discovered...