Crocodile museum to open in Egypt

The first “Museum of Crocodiles” will open this month in front of the Temple of Kom Ombo in Aswan, a busy tourist area on the East bank of the Nile, southern Egypt.

Forty mummified crocodiles of ranging in size from 1.5m long to almost of five metres long will be exhibited, according to Egypt's tourism authority.

The museum, which is opening in time for Aswan's National Day in January, will also feature statues of Sobek, known by Ancient Egyptians as 'the crocodile god'.