Museum · Egypt
Crocodile Museum, Kom Ombo
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Museum beside Kom Ombo temple displaying mummified Nile crocodiles and objects linked to the crocodile god Sobek.
Where it is
24.4530, 32.9277
Why go
Opened in 2012 next to Kom Ombo’s double temple, this museum is devoted to Sobek, the crocodile-headed god worshipped there. Its main hall shows mummified Nile crocodiles, the longest about 4.3 metres, together with crocodile embryos, eyes and gold and ivory teeth taken from mummies. Statues of Sobek of different sizes and a reconstructed burial modelled on finds from the Shutb cemetery explain how the sacred animals were buried in pottery coffins.
Near Crocodile Museum, Kom Ombo
Archaeological site
Kom Ombo Temple
A Nile-side temple with paired dedications to Sobek and Horus the Elder.
0 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ
Archaeological site
Gebel el-Silsila
Ancient sandstone quarries on both Nile banks north of Kom Ombo, with Horemheb's rock temple, shrines and royal stelae.
22 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ
Archaeological site
Qubbet el-Hawa Tombs
Rock-cut tombs of Aswan's Old and Middle Kingdom governors on the west-bank cliffs opposite Elephantine Island.
39 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ
Monastery
Monastery of Saint Simeon, Aswan
A stone-and-mud-brick monastic complex near Aswan, also associated with Saint Hadra.
40 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ