make the adventure of visiting the island of Philae


The island of Philae, is an island in the middle of the River Nile, one of the forts strongest along the border of southern Egypt, and separates the Nile into two channels Maackstan in Aswan, the Temple of Philae and moved from its original location on the island of Philae was assembled on the island of Ojeljka, in the wake of the High Dam

--> This is because the name of elephants or heads the to the Greek language which means the (beloved) or (granules) while the Arabic name it is (Anas exist) the proportion of the myth once in the story of the Thousand and One Nights, The name of the ancient Egyptian and Coptic is Bilak or Balakh means to reduce or end because it was last the borders of Egypt in the south. And a set of worship dedicated to the worship of the goddess Isis, is that the island contained the temples of Hathor and Amenhotep, and other temples. 



Constructed temples "elephants" in the origin to the worship of the goddess "Isis" 

In all the centuries elephants have gained a special place in worship to the extent that a crowd of followers that worship were meeting to commemorate the death and sent a story of Osiris. 

The great temple was built during the third century BC, was followed by the temples of Amenhotep and Erssanovas. The Temple of Hathor is the last effect is the Ptolemaic and its construction was completed before the year 116 BC by Aiorgits II. Has added other inscriptions Btalma to elephants, which is one of the masterpieces of the temple. Egypt and the worship of the gods Isis spread to Greece and Rome and in various parts of the empire, even when applied Roman rule in Egypt, the rulers tried to beauty the island has the Holy Emperor Augustus Caesar built a temple in the northern tip of elephants in the ninth century BC. The Tibirius and others have added edifices and inscriptions, as Claudius and Trajan built Hadrian and Diocletian and the new buildings on the island continued to work there until the fourth century AD. 

To control the intensity of the worship of Isis on Philae Island led to the extension of worship for many centuries in defiance of the edict of Emperor Theodosius I, issued in 391 AD and which imposes on the Christian religion throughout the Empire of Romania. In 550 AD, under the rule of Justinian and Christianity arrived to the island of Philae and started a new page in its history. A new society and be a Christian on the island of Philae and the hall turned columns to be suitable for the practice of the new religion. Stones were taken from some of the effects to build Christian churches on the island. The new village grew around the Temple of Isis 
When Islam came, was considered a bulwark elephants represented in one of the legendary story of the Thousand and One Nights, and gained the name Anas being named after a hero of the stories of these stories a thousand and one nights. 


This temple dedicated to the goddess Isis, which swamped the Nile waters were divided and re-assembled in a new location on the island of Ajeljka a distance of about 500 m from its original location on the island of Philae and includes its buildings temple of Hathor and the visitor can view a sound and light at night, which offers a variety of languages. 
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Egypt was part of the prosperous parts of the Romanian Empire, became a wealthy right has built several new cities where the most famous establishments in Egypt in the Roman era, the so-called Pharaoh's bed any kiosk of Trajan and the impact on the island of Philae was built by Emperor Trajan, the Roman governor. 

Trajan's Kiosk 

Held a large number of temples on the island of "elephants" Perhaps the oldest of the temples dating to the reign of King Tuthmosis III (1490-1436 BC). In the fourth century BC, built the King "Nakht Npf" (378-341 BC). Huge temple was built and its impact on "Ptolemy Veladlv" (third century BC) the great temple, and then followed by many of the Ptolemaic kings and the governors of the Romans 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 
Back ruins the first on the island of Philae to the reign of King Taharqa (family and Twenty-fifth) is the Temple of Isis, one of the largest and most important effects in the group of temples, large and small on the island of Philae and the running of this temple is about a quarter of the island Among other effects on the island of Philae compartment "Nkhtnpo I" (family xxx), and two rows of columns dating back to Roman times, and the Temple of Erassanovas Greek - Roman Temple of Mandolees (from the Roman era), and the Temple of Imhotep (from the Ptolemaic period) and the most important small temples that surround the group temples, the great temple of Hathor (the Ptolemaic period) compartment and Trajan. 


Been reshaped Ajeljka Island, which lies a distance of five hundred meters from the site of the island of Philae and transferred to them the various temples of the island of Philae and the sunken so similar to the island of Philae. 

Temple of Isis on the island of Philae 

Since the completion of the first building of the Aswan Dam in 1902 and the Nile waters surrounding the island of Philae most of the year, so the island with all its stock of precious ancient temples, including cabins, columns, and gates Pharaonic, embodying all the architectural styles Romanian - Greek and Pharaonic. 

The Nkhtnpo which is one of the last kings of Egypt had built the original temple on the island of Philae in the first half of the fourth century BC, and after him came the Ptolemies, who ruled the country for 300 years and embraced the cult of Isis, supplementing private tombs on the island. 

This has led to building the High Dam on the change of attitude towards radical For consideration that the island will be located between the dam and the new dam old it will become partially submerged, but throughout the year. 

In addition, the daily draw water to drive turbines that generate electricity may mean the presence of ripples going in nearly 3 meters of water level, which leads in turn to destroy the stones quickly and then the failure to find a solution to this problem would have led to this island floating long Khlapt the lives of tourists to the disappearance from the map. 
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When the island was put the problem of elephants as a pressing problem, the response at the Nubia Campaign, a quick Maeks international community's determination to save this area of ​​beauty and historical importance of this issue and then save the elephants were not or not how to save as much as patchwork. 

However, after examining the findings of this project and in particular the impact of artesian water on the effects of the project and what it requires great cost, experts also suggested another project submitted by the Egyptian government and the project aims to transfer to the island of Ajeljka effects. 

Began the process of saving elephants in 1972, when the ships began may Piles installed the first plate steel, from between 3000 plate, in the bottom of the Nile in order to gain a temporary dam to hold the water around the island and it took two years to inform the island by two rows of piles, cutting a length of 12 meters, and within this vacuum has been Pour a mixture of water and washed sand quarries in the waterfall at a distance of 5 km, were connected to this mixture across the lake through the tubes, were allowed to leak water, leaving the sand to support the steel against the pressure of the lake, and so completed escape belt around the island.

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