Crocodile Museum mummy cases

Beside Kom Ombo's twin temple, a small museum houses Sobek's votive crocodiles — hatchlings to giants, linen-wrapped mummies in cases, and skeletal mounts explaining the reptile cult that thrived where Nile crocodiles once basked.

Visit after temple columns — indoor drawer cools afternoon heat and answers why crocodile reliefs cover outer walls.

Mummy specimens

Dozens of preserved crocodiles line rows — some gilded, most plain linen. X-ray panels reveal bones inside bundles; labels note votive breeding pools that supplied temples.

Sobek context

Kom Ombo pairs Horus and Sobek — human medicine reliefs on one side, crocodile theology on other. Museum drawer completes theological circuit temple alone only hints.

Drawer 04 is Egypt's strangest specialty cabinet — animal mummies as devotional inventory, not zoo spectacle.