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Philae, like Abu Simbel, moved stone by stone and lovingly reassembled above the water level of Lake Nasser, that was to form behind the newly constructed Assuan Dam. Philae was revered as one of the burial sites of the goddess Osiris. It is post-Pharaonic, constructed in the Ptolemaic era |
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Like so many Egyptian monuments, defaced (literally) by early Christian zealots |
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Trajan's Kiosk |
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Philae
Egypt
