Aswan City of Beauty

Aswan City of Beauty

Date: The importance of this region in the era of the ancient state was manifested to secure the southern border. It was a gathering center for the armies when the kings of the Middle Kingdom tried to extend their authority southward through the ships to the Hijaz, Yemen and India. The summer school was established, and the star school in Aswan is the city of Aswan. Fentin Island: It was one of the strongest fortresses on the border of southern Egypt and is located opposite the hotel "Katrakt" was her idol, "Khnom" god in the form of a head of a ram Agelica Island: In the Ptolemaic era, the island of Phyllis, home of the worship of Isis, received much attention and completed its great temple. In the era of the Romans, the temples were built in the ancient Egyptian style to draw closer to the Egyptians. When the spread of Christianity became an official religion in the fifth century AD, the temples became Egyptian churches. Islam was spread since its inception. To the beginning of the first century AH. Aswan was flourishing in the Islamic era. In the tenth century AD, it was a road to Izzab on the Red Sea coast. It was an important cultural center in the sixth and seventh centuries AH. It had three schools, the oldest of which was the Aswan School. She played a special role during the Egyptian jihad to expel the Hyksos. The temple and the ruins of Phila, which were flooded by the waters of the Nile, were dismantled and the temple of Philae was dismantled and re-assembled on the island, which is 500 meters away. From the site of the temples of Phila, as the sound and light is displayed in the temples of Phila in all different languages ​​and the view of the island after the transfer of the temple. The missing obelisk: Is a huge obelisk that has not been cut. It is about 41 meters long and the length of the base rib is about 4 meters and weighs 117 tons. Its importance is due to explaining the methods of cutting old obelisks. It also shows how much effort and means the ancient Egyptians used to sculpt these obelisks. A crack in the base they left in this place The temples of the island: - The island contains remains of stone temples of different ages and shows on the gate of one of the halls of the southern temple inscriptions representing Alexander II in the form of an Egyptian king offering sacrifices to different gods Island of Amun: - It is a small island where a tourist hotel was built. There is nothing left of it now and there are no pictures of it. It dates back to the Roman era and shows the measures of the Nile flood in the Greek and Arabic languages ​​and was used until recently The Monastery of Anba Semaan: It dates back to the 6th century AD and is one of the most complete Coptic monasteries. It has a church that still has pictures depicting Jesus and the saints. Temple of Kom Ombo: - The temple is located on a high hill overlooking the Nile and dates back to the Ptolemaic era as well as the tombs of the ancient state in the north of the city of Kom Ombo, which is about 45 km north of Aswan. The temple was built in 180 BC. M. (Sobek and Horus). This temple is unique in its architectural form because it is based on two axes representing each of them stand alone An integrated lighting project was also carried out to illuminate the temple at night Temple of Edfu: - Located 123 km north of the city of Aswan in the city of Edfu is one of the most beautiful temples of Egypt and is characterized by great construction and splendor and dates back to the Ptolemaic era was dedicated to the temple worship of God (Horus my body), where the walls depict the story of Horus and revenge of his uncle six High Dam:- Is an architectural miracle of the twentieth century and is one of the largest dams in the world, which was set up to protect the country from the floods that were flooding the country and flooding large areas, or waste wasted in the Mediterranean Museum of Nubia: - The idea of ​​its creation dates back to the 1950s when the Nubian Salvage Program began a study to determine where to record practically, geographically and in which transfers could be made. The beginning of the temple of Abu Simbel, which was deconstructed and moved to its current location, and then carried out rescue operations for the rest of the temples at the same time, which was conducting large-scale drilling and exploration in areas that are expected to be flooded by the lake; resulting in the discovery of thousands of artifacts, some of them To the prehistoric period, these discoveries have been deposited in the stores that a museum is created to exhibit and tell The various stages of the history of Nubia, and to serve as a miniature model of life before it flooded the river. UNESCO has once again adopted an international campaign to contribute to the construction of the museum. In 1986, the foundation stone of the project was laid. It took about 10 years and was opened in November 1991. The temple of Abu Simbel The most beautiful temple of Ramses II Imagine that the giant building was built from a single rock and was transferred by UNESCO after the sinking of the Nubia temples The oldest parts of the Philae temple date back to the 4th century BC, and most of the existing parts were built by the Ptolemaic and Romanes at periods extending up to the third century AD. The first Christians added their touches to the island by turning the main hall of the temple into a small church. They also built two churches on the site. In their era, some of the inscriptions of the pagan temple were distorted. They themselves added some Christian inscriptions, Structure of the temple The temple of Vila was originally built for the worship of the goddess Isis, where they believed that she found the heart of her husband Osiris (after he was killed and cut off by his evil brother Six) over the island of Phila. The beliefs of the ancient Egyptians.)