The Philae Temple began construction during the reign of Pharaoh Nectanebo I of the 30th Dynasty, around 380–362 BCE, and was completed by several Ptolemaic kings.

The temple that came back to life The Nile's Agilkia Island. ... Close to Aswan, around 140 miles south of Luxor, lies Philae, an ancient temple with an equally amazing modern history.

The Philae Temple complex is, technically, no longer on Philae. In the late 1970s, it was carefully disassembled and moved, block by block, to Agilkia, a higher island a quarter-mile downriver ...

Nevine El-Aref, Thursday 26 Apr 2012. Following year of exhaustive restoration work, the Hathor temple on Egypt's island of Philae will reopen to public next month ...

The Great Temple of Ramses II was rediscovered two hundred years ago, carved out of a mountain on the Niles’ banks. The structure is a shrine to the pharaoh and primeval Egyptian gods.

Philae Temple has certainly attracted a new admirer. How to do it: Abercrombie & Kent offers a seven-night Egypt trip from £3,980 per person, based on two sharing, ...

In 1960, a new dam on the Nile threatened Ramses II’s temples at Abu Simbel and other ancient treasures. Here's how the world saved them.

And the temple was not just a religious place,” says Hanna, pointing out how people would have lived and worked here too. Today, Philae is testament to the care and attention of the world’s ...