European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 19, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                February 1979 the stars and stripes Page 11 As Island of vanished under Temple of Isis was Block by Block in York Rosenh ancient Temple is being rebuilt on a much higher Island not far from reassembling the Temple of Isis by Earleen Tatlo for the associated press w Ith the help of frogman and giant the ancient temples of a Fula Island have been rescued cram a watery grave beneath the Nile and Are rising slowly on another ened to do what plagues and religious zealots could not destroy the when the British built the Low Aswan dam in the Nile crept Over submerging the temples for nine months every the High Aswan completed in trapped philae in a rising Pool of water Between the iwo in the Early the monuments were Dis mantled by a least of egyptian italian engineers and egyptology its funded by Enesco and the egyptian nearly Stone Blacks were cleaned and stored behind a barbed wire Fence deep inside a military with dynamite end a new Home was pre pared on nearby Agillia a much higher Island with few  the is lands Rocky contours were blasted into a the debris was used to shape Agil kias outline to re semble that of last the lint pieces of the Monu ments were brought to the and a Tashro bling eight months the two pylons Trape Zoi shaped Walls covered with inscriptions stand partially completed in front of the foundation for the main Temple o the expected to be completed in about two has Given Egypt Logist a rare Opportunity to study the history of philae in really not because for Many Yean the water made it impassible to excavate inside the Farag the we discovered three new so we have changed the history of while much of philae history has been it is known that the Island played a prominent role in the religion of the ancient egyptians at very Remote times of history believed that there was a family of gods who ruled the Nile Farag osiris was the head of this ancient egyptians loved this god very because they believed that he taught them All the Means of improving this put envy in the heart of his brother who got rid of him Fay cutting his body into several pieces and tossing them along the Nile when the wife of started searching for his she started on so philae became sacred for just Ai Ibe remains of her husband were the remains of her Temple lie scattered with the pieces of philae other they lie in rows in the eight acre storage waiting to be taken to we Call this the cemetery of Farag signs Mark the pieces of each Down a Sandy Lane marked for Are of blocks from the Temple of a nubian in addition to the blocks removed from the  found blocks scattered around the from the hieroglyphics and figures carved on the egyptology its know that Many of them were once part Ottine ii la like crossword Farag like we fit the writing we found three upper courses of the second Pylon of the Temple of we know that they were missing in the time of Napoleon because of the re cords left by the but we found them and we will reelect British and egyptian Navy divers have been Nell item to Salvage Otic Las Temple o he roman Temple of Augustus which lies out Side toe most of our work has been in Disman says David Bead of the six Man British diving this Lime we will be putting things together instead of blowing them egyptian reconstruction the Island of philae has vanished in Apo of Stag Nant Green water behind an in Circuns cofferdam be tween the High Aswan dam and Low soon the cofferdam will be us Lea Vwg nothing to Mark the spot which was the sacred Island of Bis from history Moat Remote Umes until the 6th Century when her the tas Flicker of pharaonic was snuffed out by Christian the Tittle 600 mite up  Mediterranean was the final Sanctuary t romans and coptic christians the Nile bringing their erecting their own temples on but Las in the technology of the 0lh Century Ireat nearly pieces of Isis Are painstakingly being