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Wednesday, 24 November 2010

Elephantine Island Temple of Philae

The island of Philae, is an island in the middle of the River Nile which is one of the forts the strongest along the borders of southern Egypt, are separated by the Nile to the two channels Maackstin in Aswan, the Temple of Philae and moved from its original location on the island of Philae was assembled on the island of Ijileka, in the wake of the High Dam .
This is because the name of the elephants or Philae to the Greek language, which means (beloved) or (pellets) The Arabic name to her that he (Anas exist), the proportion of the myth of Anas presence in the story of the Thousand and One Nights The name of the ancient Egyptian and Coptic is Bilak or Bilak and means to reduce or end because it was the last border of Egypt in the south. And a set of worship devoted to the worship of the god Isis is that the island contained the temples of Hathor and Amenhotep, and other temples.