Kom Ombo
Kom Ombo is an agricultural town in
Egypt famous for its temple. It was originally a Greek settlement called Ombos, from the Egyptian 'nubt', meaning City of Gold. The town's location on the
Nile 50 km north of
Aswan gave it some control over trade routes from
Nubia to the Nile Valley, but its main rise to prominence came with the erection of the temple in the
2nd century BC.
Today, irrigated sugar cane and corn account for most of the agricultural industry.
Most of the 60,000 villagers are native Egyptians although there is a large population of Nubians who were displaced from their land upon the creation of Lake Nasser.
- See also: Temple of Kom Ombo