The story of Philae Temple
Jun 07, 2021
Philae is the name of an island located on the Nile River, eleven kilometers
south of Aswan, in Egypt. It is famous for the temples erected during the
Pharaonic, Ptolemaic and Roman periods dedicated to the worship of the
goddess Isis that spread throughout the Mediterranean, maintaining its
veneration in the temple of Philae until it was banned in the time of Justinian
I, the year 535.
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The walls of the temples at Philae are covered in ancient hieroglyphs. Amongst the large carvings of the gods of Ancient Egypt are the inscriptions in the ornate pictorial alphabet, telling the stories of this civilisation. Travelling around Egypt, you see a lot of hieroglyphs – but there is something special about the ones at Philae. They were the last to be written by the Ancient Egyptians.
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