Egypt unveils restored Isis Temple 150 years after its discovery
Egypt inaugurates the restored Temple of Isis in Aswan as part of the government’s efforts to revive the tourism sector.
Egyptian Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Khaled al-Anani inaugurated Jan. 15 Egypt’s newly restored Temple of Isis in Aswan.
The more than 2,200-year-old Ptolemaic temple, located in a residential area in the center of Aswan, was discovered in 1871 during the extension of a railway line. (It is not to be confused with the much larger and older Temple of Isis that was moved piece by piece to nearby Agilkia Island from Philae Island in the 1970s after flooding from the Aswan High Dam south of Aswan threatened to destroy the archaeological treasure.)
