This area was once a home to a large number of crocodiles, which were held to be sacred. The only crocodiles in-sight, now, are mummified and located in the chapel of Hathor within the temple. The temple was excavated last century with parts lost into the Nile and to an earthquake in 1992. The temple has two of everything,
to accommodate the two gods, and among the projections on the walls, in detail, are sets of medical instruments carved into the stone. The crocodile-headed god Sobek wears a crown of double plumes which are located on top of horizontal ram’s horns. A sun disk sits at the center base of the plumes, and uraei (rearing cobras) rest on each side. Also visible in the temple are well-preserved bases of walls that allow you to see how the Egyptians got the stone blocks so close to one another by using water and wooden inserts.
