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Philae (fī`lē), former island, SE Egypt, NE Africa, in the Nile River N of the Aswan High Dam. Of its temples, all dating from late Egyptian and classical times (600 B.C.–A.D. 600), the most famous was the temple to Isis, built by the early Ptolemies and not closed to pagan worship until the reign of Justinian. The island is now covered by the waters of Lake Nasser Nasser, Lake, c.1,550 sq mi (4,010 sq km), on the Nile River, SE Egypt and N Sudan. Created in the 1960s, it extends c.350 mi (560 km) behind Aswan High Dam, submerging the more southern second and third cataracts. Lake Nasser averages c. ..... Click the link for more information. . An international fund (organized 1960) aided the removal of most of the monuments before the island was submerged. PhilaeFormer island of the Nile River in Upper Egypt. It was sacred to Isis and contained many temples, the earliest dating from the 7th century BC. After the completion of the Aswan High Dam in 1970, the temples were moved to the nearby island of Agilkia before Philae was submerged by the waters of Lake Nasser. Philae an island in Upper Egypt, in the Nile north of the Aswan Dam: of religious importance in ancient times; almost submerged since the raising of the level of the dam How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The Rosetta spacecraft, which is set to arrive at the comet in 2014 at a speed of 75,000 miles per hour, consists of two main elements; the Rosetta space probe and the Philae lander. Above, the 2,000-year-old temple of Philae stands on high ground, where it was moved to save it from the rising waters behind the Aswan Dam. The huge complexes of Abu Simbel and Philae have thus been preserved in their entirety. |
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