Agilkia Island
Agilkia Island (also called Agilika; Arabic: أجيليكا) is an island in the reservoir of the Old Aswan Dam along the Nile River in southern Egypt; it is the present site of the relocated Ancient Egyptian temple complex of Philae. Partially to completely flooded by the old dam's construction in 1902,[1][2] the Philae complex was dismantled and relocated to Agilkia island, as part of a wider UNESCO project[3] related to the 1960s construction of the Aswan High Dam and the eventual flooding of many sites posed by its large reservoir upstream.[4][5]
Agilkia, like the island, was the name chosen for the planned landing site on a comet by the Rosetta spacecraft mission's Philae lander.[6][7] Upon initial touchdown however, the lander took a large bounce followed by a smaller one before finally coming to rest perhaps a kilometer away from Agilkia, named Abydos.
References
- ↑ Frederic Courtland Penfield, Harnessing the Nile, Century Magazine, (February, 1899)
- ↑ Sidney Peel, The Binding of the Nile and the New Soudan, Oxford 1904 , p.76
- ↑ Monuments of Nubia-International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia World Heritage Committee, UNESCO
- ↑ The Rescue of Nubian Monuments and Sites, UNESCO
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External links
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- Philae @ 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
- Sacred Temple Island of Philae
- Philae @ Mark Millmore's Ancient Egypt
- Philae @ EgyptSites
- Cruising the Nile: Philae
- Philae @ The Domain of Het-Hert another alternative name for Hathor - aerial view of the temples
- Philae @ Akhet Egyptology
- Temple Complex: Distant Views
- Pictures of complex's features
- Philae Temple photographs on GlobalAmity.net
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