Featured: Explore Scotland (and everywhere else) with our Megalithic Portal iPhone app

Explore Scotland (and everywhere else) with our Megalithic Portal iPhone app

Random Image


Meacombe Cist

Iron Age Britain, Barry Cunliffe

Iron Age Britain, Barry Cunliffe

Who's Online

There are currently, 372 guests and 3 members online.

You are a guest. To join in, please register for free by clicking here

Sponsors

<< Our Photo Pages >> Elephantine Temple of Khnum - Ancient Temple in Egypt in Nubia

Submitted by AlexHunger on Saturday, 18 February 2006  Page Views: 9162

Roman, Greek and ClassicalSite Name: Elephantine Temple of Khnum
Country: Egypt
NOTE: This site is 1.112 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: Nubia Type: Ancient Temple
Nearest Town: Aswan  Nearest Village: Elephantine Island
Latitude: 24.084190N  Longitude: 32.886600E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
1 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
3 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
no data

Internal Links:
External Links:

I have visited· I would like to visit

43559959 visited on 15th Mar 2005 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 5 Access: 4

Orcinus saw from a distance Viewed from the Nile

Elephantine Temple of Khnum
Elephantine Temple of Khnum submitted by AlexHunger : Temple of Khnum Aswan, Elephantine Island. N24.08419, E32.88660 Built about 1490 BC during the new kingdom. Khnum (aka: Chem, Kemu, Khem) was the Ram Headed god of Nile Flooding, and husband of Satet with the same functin who has a temple 100 meters to the north. The picture shows the massive courtyard which originally had a colonnade. The entrance would have had pylons on either side. T... (Vote or comment on this photo)
Temple in Nubia


Khnum (aka: Chem, Kemu, Khem) was the Ram Headed god of Nile Flooding, and husband of Satet with the same functin who has a temple 100 meters to the north. This site also survived relatively unscathed until about 1830 when Mohamed Ali leveled the place in order to build a fort that never even got started. Archeologists replaced some major blocks but did not have enough to do more. 2 smallish obelisks survive in the Nubian Museum across the river. There are no bridges across the Nile in Aswan, except for the 2 dams, so visitors should use the many feluccas and motor boats to cross the river. This costs the equivalent of about 1 GBP per hour.
You may be viewing yesterday's version of this page. To see the most up to date information please register for a free account.


Elephantine Temple of Khnum
Elephantine Temple of Khnum submitted by Orcinus : 'Elephant' rocks in the Nile below the Elephantine Temple of Khnum, 2009 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Elephantine Temple of Khnum
Elephantine Temple of Khnum submitted by Orcinus : Elephantine Temple of Khnum seen from the Nile in 2009 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Elephantine Temple of Khnum
Elephantine Temple of Khnum submitted by 43559959 : Elephantine Temple of Khnum (Vote or comment on this photo)

Elephantine Temple of Khnum
Elephantine Temple of Khnum submitted by 43559959 : Elephantine Temple of Khnum. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Elephantine Temple of Khnum
Elephantine Temple of Khnum submitted by 43559959

Elephantine Temple of Khnum
Elephantine Temple of Khnum submitted by 43559959

Elephantine Temple of Khnum
Elephantine Temple of Khnum submitted by 43559959

Do not use the above information on other web sites or publications without permission of the contributor.
Click here to see more info for this site

Nearby sites

Click here to view sites on an interactive map of the area

Key: Red: member's photo, Blue: 3rd party photo, Yellow: other image, Green: no photo - please go there and take one, Grey: site destroyed

Download sites to:
KML (Google Earth)
GPX (GPS waypoints)
CSV (Garmin/Navman)
CSV (Excel)

To unlock full downloads you need to sign up as a Contributory Member. Otherwise downloads are limited to 50 sites.


Turn off the page maps and other distractions

Nearby sites listing. In the following links * = Image available
 60m N 7° Aswan Museum, Elephantine Island* Museum
 68m N 4° Temple of Satet* Ancient Temple
 104m NE 52° Elephantine Island Nilometer* Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
 191m NW 326° Elephantine Pyramid Pyramid / Mastaba
 645m SE 136° Nubian Museum* Museum
 1.2km SE 133° Aswan Broken Obelisk* Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
 1.4km ENE 69° Qubbet el-Hawa Chambered Tomb
 2.0km N 8° Tombs of Mekhu & Sabni #25 #26 (double tomb,) Aswan* Rock Cut Tomb
 2.0km N 8° Tombs of the Nobles, Aswan* Rock Cut Tomb
 2.0km N 8° Tomb of Pepi-nakht Tomb #35 Aswan* Rock Cut Tomb
 2.0km N 8° Tomb of Sarenput II Tomb #31, Aswan* Rock Cut Tomb
 2.0km N 8° Tomb of Harkhuf #34, Aswan* Rock Cut Tomb
 2.8km NNW 341° Aswan West Bank Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
 3.2km SSW 209° Sehel Island* Rock Art
 3.7km W 270° Elephantine Island Hebrew Temple* Ancient Temple
 5.4km NNW 342° Nag el-Hamdulab Rock Art
 6.5km S 182° Kiosk of Trajan* Ancient Temple
 6.5km S 182° Philea Temple of Hathor* Ancient Temple
 6.6km S 182° Philae Temple of Emhotep* Ancient Temple
 6.6km S 182° Philae Temple of Isis* Ancient Temple
 13.8km S 189° Temple of Beit El-Wali* Ancient Temple
 13.8km S 188° Temple of Kalabsha* Ancient Temple
 13.9km S 188° Temple of Dedwen* Ancient Temple
 13.9km S 188° Kiosk of Kertassi* Ancient Temple
 13.9km S 188° Stele of Seti I* Carving
View more nearby sites and additional images

<< Macduff's Cross

Brenig 6 >>

Please add your thoughts on this site

Callanish, Gerald Ponting

Callanish, Gerald Ponting

Sponsors

Auto-Translation (Google)

Translate from English into:

"Elephantine Temple of Khnum" | Login/Create an Account | 0 News and Comments
  
Go back to top of page    Comments are owned by the poster. We aren't responsible for their content.
Your Name: Anonymous [ Register Now ]
Subject:


Add your comment or contribution to this page. Spam or offensive posts are deleted immediately, don't even bother

<<< What is five plus one as a number? (Please type the answer to this question in the little box on the left)
You can also embed videos and other things. For Youtube please copy and paste the 'embed code'.
For Google Street View please include Street View in the text.
Create a web link like this: <a href="https://www.megalithic.co.uk">This is a link</a>  

Allowed HTML is:
<p> <b> <i> <a> <img> <em> <br> <strong> <blockquote> <tt> <li> <ol> <ul> <object> <param> <embed> <iframe>

We would like to know more about this location. Please feel free to add a brief description and any relevant information in your own language.
Wir möchten mehr über diese Stätte erfahren. Bitte zögern Sie nicht, eine kurze Beschreibung und relevante Informationen in Deutsch hinzuzufügen.
Nous aimerions en savoir encore un peu sur les lieux. S'il vous plaît n'hesitez pas à ajouter une courte description et tous les renseignements pertinents dans votre propre langue.
Quisieramos informarnos un poco más de las lugares. No dude en añadir una breve descripción y otros datos relevantes en su propio idioma.