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Wednesday, 24 November 2010

Temples on the island of Philae

Held a large number of temples on the island of "elephants" Perhaps the oldest of these temples dating to the reign of King Thutmose III (1490-1436 BC). In the fourth century BC, the king built the "Nakht LNBF" (378-341 BC). And a huge temple built on the impact of "Ptolemy Veladlv" (third century BC) the great temple, and then followed many of the kings of the Ptolemaic and Roman rulers until the crowded island of Philae temples , and the best known is called the "chamber of Pharaoh."There is also a large number of statues of the kings of ancient Egypt on the island of Philae. [5]Back ruins the first on the island of Philae to the reign of King Taharqa (Family Twenty-fifth) is the Temple of Isis, one of the largest and most important effects in the group of large and small temples on the island of Philae and the running of this temple about a quarter of the island and among other effects on the island of Philae limited "Nkhtnbo I" (family xxx), and two rows of columns dating back to Roman times, and the Temple of Orisnovis Greek - Roman Temple of Mandolees (from Roman times), and the Temple of Imhotep (from the Ptolemaic period), and the most important small temples that surround a set of large temples Temple of Hathor (the Ptolemaic period) Trajan and limited [6].