After arriving in Egypt for few days, finally get to visit an ancient monuments soon - Philae Temple!
In order to visit the temple, we have to take a boat to cross over to Agilkia island.
There are a lot of nice souvenirs available but we are too busy to look at it at the moment.
From pyramid to Goddess.
I'm sure one will find something interesting looking at so many choices available.
The boat ride took about 10 to 20 minutes.
This is not the original location of the temple. It was move here with the building of High Dam in Aswan.
Philae Temple have witnessed the rise and fall of several great empires. The monuments cover four major period of time: the last part of the Pharaonic era, the Ptolemaic period, the Roman and the Christian period.
The oldest and the most important temple on the island is Temple of Isis dedicated to goddess Isis.
Every part of the wall are cover with hieroglyphs.
Some are destroyed by subsequent religion that rise up following the downfall of the other empire.
The Kiosk rectangular in shape and surrounded by fourteen columns with floral.
Closer look at the floral column.
The Philae temple may looks very Egyptian, is not difficult to spot it has difference influence over it's construction. Egyptian, Greeks and Roman all leave their marks.
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