The ancient city of Cape / Edfu / Aswan
It is located about 30 km south of Edfu, about 83 km south of Luxor, and about 80 km north of Aswan.
On the eastern shore of the Nile
It was the capital of Upper Egypt in prehistoric times. It later became the capital of the third region for more than three thousand years, until the rule of the Ptolemaic era and even the Byzantine times.
It was one of the important religious centres; it witnessed days of glory and greatness since prehistoric times.
Its important monuments are concentrated on a high hill that is climbed by a side ladder with a height of about 7 meters.
The city includes many monuments from stores and tombs from the Old and Middle Kingdoms and the remains of buildings and temples.
The city also includes a temple built by Amenhotep III in the desert
And the rocky tombs of Ahmose Ibn Ebana, who fought the Hyksos
Indeed, that famous nobleman who lived in the era of Tuthmosis III
The high priest of the eighteenth dynasty saw the reign of King Amenhotep I
Setaw, who was the high priest of Nekhbet during the reign of Ramses III until the reign of Ramses IX during the Twentieth Dynasty
And the walls were built by King Nectanebo the Second, a huge mud-brick wall, 550 meters long, 550 meters wide, and more than eleven meters thick. Inside it is the Nekhbet temple, a maternity house, and a sacred lake.
And a rocky temple dating back to the Ptolemaic period, which Ptolemy IV built.
And many other archaeological hills that bear witness to the great and immortal glory of that city now sleeping between the Nile and the desert in the shadow of its high walls.
He also found huge stores from the mud age and the inscriptions discovered on a rock in the city site called Nisour Rock.