Welcome back to our ancient Egypt series today we're in southern Egypt about two
hours north of Aswan to visit an ancient temple called the temple of Edfu,
dedicated to the chief god Horus. let's go check it out.
We sail through the serene landscape of the Nile which includes palm trees, cows
and agriculture. We are on the sundeck!
we're about to take a horse carriage ride into the city all right we're on
the horse our horses name is Layla our driver's name is Mohammed.
In order to reach the temple of Edfu, we take a horse-drawn carriage across the
city of Edfu which has approximately 60,000 people.
Along the 15-minute ride our driver races the other horse-drawn buggies as
we try to catch glimpses of the street life here in Edfu. We spot colorful
fruit stands with oranges perfectly arranged and people lining up to buy
"Aish Baladi" the famous Egyptian flatbread. We spot colorful laundry
hanging out of windows, women and men shopping, and things get a little bit
more chaotic as we approach the supermarket.
We are by the supermarket, it's very busy here. Lots of people shopping.
So we went through this huge gauntlet, this bizarre, in order to get to Edfu temple.
I made about 50 friends in the span of 30 seconds.
It was like "hello my friend..."
"hello where are you from my friend"
"Where are you from?" "Alaska?"
you can hear the call to prayer and background
This is edfu temple in a very remote village along the Nile.
[call to prayer]
Phew! We are at Edfu temple. This was built during the times of the Greeks and so
it's the same scene repeated and we have Horus in the middle there, the bird
depicted, and then offerings to the gods. So our guide was saying that Egypt had
nine enemies three from the Syrian region 3 from the Asiatic region and
then three tribes in Nubia. This is insane how tall this is... Look!
This has got to be at least like four stories tall
Follow me into the mysterious temple of Edfu. There are a lot of Prince symbols here.
so when you come to Egypt you will be spoiled for good because nowhere else in
the world can you visit sites with this amount of preservation and age. It is
absolutely mind-blowing. Everything you see here it looks like it
was painted and created yesterday, but it hits thousands of years old so this
temple was founded in 237 BC. And when the professors came here to study it
this area here was covered in sandstone and when they had covered it a surprise
waited inside... rolls and rolls of papyrus - as if it was written just yesterday. Told
of the festivals that they had in this chamber. Eight different festivals.
What's incredible about being here is how close you can get to the
hieroglyphics. There's no barrier so you can literally get right up close to them.
I must say ...recipes for perfume.
these are the recipes to make perfume so the squiggly line is water and these are
numbers so quantities of what to put in the perfume.
Right here is a trapdoor - if you press up against it it will initiate the booby
trap. Time to go...
[music]
I made it into the secret corridor.
Wow there's nobody in here....
Let's go this way...
There's gotta be buried treasure in there.
This place had at least 5,000 bats
whoa...5,000 bats!
I will never forget that day as long as I live.
This right here is the crypt where they found the buried treasure - right
behind a sandstone wall. All right let's get out of here - it's getting spooky.
Crikey... we found it!
The Crypt to the buried treasure. Here is a secret passageway and exit from the
temple in times of danger.
Mike found the secret chamber to the buried treasure! what did you find Mike?
HORUS!
Horus!
This temple is dedicated to the sky god Horus represented by the falcon. Our
guide tells us the ancient Egyptian myth behind horses life and how he battled
rival God Seth his uncle for the throne of Egypt.
All of a sudden.. [fighting]
Attention - During that fight,
Seth was hiding
His nephew (yes?)
was with a big spear... in his hand
trying to catch him in the water
All of a sudden he comes out in the form of ... a hippopotamus!
He turns into a hippopotamus.
Another time in the form of a crocodile.
Hippopotamus, crocodile. All the time,
trying to hide away.
Because Horus is trying to catch him
and during that fight, Horus lost one of his eyes.
Which was called the Eye of Horus.
Mike just played the story of Horus
HORUS
versus evil SETH!
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down below for more travel videos. okay so we just finished checking out this
beautiful temple it is massive and what's cool is that it feels like a
private temple because there's so many corridors and we're here literally by
ourselves. I mean there's a few groups, but you can find so many private corners
in here, kind of scary, kind of cool. We have this site all to ourselves
nobody's know it's time for a little dance party in the middle of the Edfu
temple
I love this place you guys - stay tuned for more
$5!
5 million dollar!
5 dollar 5 dollar!
5 dollars!
thirty, One hundred thirty.
after multiple rounds of bargaining with multiple merchants outside of the Edfu
temple ,we buy something for the special Egyptian night back on our boat.
Just like that... we are back on the boat.
Ok so after all of that,
this is what I got. Got a dress, Egyptian dress!
It has embroidery it was $200 dollar! roughly $13 US
Now feeling a little bit like an Egyptian queen, I show off the new digs at our Egyptian night on
our boat. We hope that you enjoyed this temple of Edfu. Give a thumbs up down
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