An ancient shrine dedicated to ancestor worship was revealed in an ongoing excavation at Tell Edfu in southern Egypt. Located in a large, six-columned hall of an urban villa, the shrine comes from within a vast domestic quarter of the ancient provincial city of Edfu. The related excavations—conducted by the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago—are enticing due to their focus on domestic spaces as opposed to funerary contexts, which otherwise dominate in the archaeology of Egypt. The excavated area, west of the local Temple of Horus, is rich in remains from various periods of ancient Egypt’s history, […]
