Standing beside the ancient Kom Ombo Temple in southern Egypt, the Crocodile Museum offers a unique portal into the beliefs and rituals of the ancien. Tuesday, 02 January 2024 12:17 GMT.

The Crocodile Museum at Kom Ombo opened on Tuesday after two weeks of being closed for repairs due to damage sustained during a heavy sandstorm.

The first “Museum of Crocodiles” will open this month in front of the Temple of Kom Ombo in Aswan, a busy tourist area on the East bank of the Nile, southern Egypt. Forty mummified crocodiles of ...

Salima Ikram travels to Kom Ombo temple where ancient Egyptians worshipped crocodile gods. Aired 04/03/2019 Sacred Crocodile Mummies Reveal the Climate of Ancient Egypt ...

The Musée des Confluences, a science museum in Lyon, France, has 2,500 animal mummies. And an estimated 10,000 bird mummies were buried annually in one sacred animal necropolis, according to ...

circa 1900: The ancient Egyptian temple of Kom Ombo, dedicated jointly to the crocodile god Sobek and the falcon god Haroeris, (Horus the Elder). circa 1900: The ancient Egyptian temple of Kom ...

The Crocodile Museum at Kom Ombo opened on Tuesday after two weeks of being closed for repairs due to damage sustained during a heavy sandstorm.

In her desire to find out more about the circumstances leading to a mysterious mass burial, archaeologist Salima Ikram travels to Kom Ombo temple where ancient Egyptians worshipped Sobek, a god ...