Visiting Crocodile Museum at Kom Ombo | Egypt Travel Blog: Day 5 (Part 37) 04D19

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Temple of Kom Ombo and Crocodile Museum | The Double Temple Dedicated to the Crocodile God Sobek the Falcon God Horus | Kom Ombo & Aswan

After visiting the Kom Ombo temple, we headed to the Crocodile museum, which was a short walk. This was a very small, dark museum with an array of mummified crocodiles and statues in the shape of crocodiles in several display cases.

The Crocodile is the first ever crocodile museum in Egypt. Dedicated to the ancient Egyptian god Sobek, the museum has forty mummified crocodiles arrayed on a sand hill inside a huge glass case. These crocodiles are not too big, ranging from about two to five meters long.

I also saw crocodile coffins, wooden sarcophagi, crocodile foetuses and eggs, carved items, and more on display. Some cases had instruments they used to mummified these crocs. Sobek mummification processes, a funerary ceremony and burial in the necropolis are also illustrated.

The most significant and eye-catching artefacts you will notice are the gold and ivory teeth and eyes they inserted into the dead crocodiles after mummification.

They prohibited camera use inside the museum, but using a cell phone to take pictures was allowed, so I had to use my phone for videos and pictures.

It didn’t take long to visit the full museum. We spent about 20 minutes and completed the tour. The dark museum had AC, which was a blessing in this heat.

From here we would go to have tea in a tent café restaurant and then would head to the Temple of Horus at Edfu.