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Behdet
Egyptian
Behdet
Greek
Apollinopolis Magna
Today
Edfu
What it was
The temple of Horus of Behdet, built over about 180 years from 237 BCE. Its walls carry the Triumph of Horus, a ritual drama of the god putting down rebellion, and long inscriptions describing the temple's own founding.
When it mattered most
Ptolemaic
What is actually there now
The most completely preserved major temple in Egypt, buried in sand until the 1860s, which is exactly why it survived.
Worshipped here
Elsewhere in Upper Egypt