This photo shows the south front of temple of Isis at Philae during the inundation period, the time of year when the Nile annually overflowed it banks - before the building of the Aswan Dam. Construction on the temple began around 280 The photo was taken by the Italian archaoelogist Guiseppe Fiorelli in the 1800s.

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