Besides the temple at Philea, we have also visited temples at Edfu, Kom Ombo, Luxor, and Karnak.  These temples were built during the New and Late Kingdoms by pharaohs who dedicated them to their gods.  Here are some photos.



This is the temple at Kom Ombo, a double temple, dedicated to the good god, Horus, and his evil brother, Seth.



This relief depicts Horus on the left as a hawk and Seth on the right as a crocodile.



Here the defeated enemies are depicted with severed arms.  Below, the lion is eating the arms.





This is the entrance pylon of the temple at Edfu.  It is the best preserved of all Egyptian temples.



This is the temple at Luxor.  We visited it in late afternoon when the shadows were very strong.



The colonnaded courtyard at Luxor.



This is the avenue of sphinxes that connects the temple of Luxor with the temple of Karnak.



These are statues of Ramses III as Osiris, the god of the dead, in the temple at Karnak.



These are the bases of several columns in the Great Hypostyle Hall at Karnak.  There are 134 of these columns in the hall, each about 33 feet in circumference.  The 16 columns in the center are 80 feet high.  It was too vast to get a picture of the more than a few columns at a time!