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Tagshorus
2 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Naqada II–III to Early Dynastic (Predynastic to 1st Dynasty) · Upper Egyptian Naqada (protodynastic)
Protodynastic super-city (c.3800–3000 BCE) — largest Predynastic centre in Egypt (100+ ha at HK desert + floodplain), cult of falcon Horus.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Ptolemaic (237–57 BCE) · Ptolemaic Egyptian (Hellenistic Pharaonic)
Best-preserved temple in Egypt: Ptolemaic Temple of Horus built 237–57 BCE (180 years) after plan of Old Kingdom then New Kingdom prototypes, buried by Nile silt and desert sand until re-excavated by…
