AIA Fieldwork Photo Contest 2020

Entry 10389

Submitted by Irwin H. Segel

Kiosk of Philae

Aswan, Egypt

Category: Monuments

An old-style photo impression of the Kiosk of Philae seen from a felucca on the Nile at Aswan, Egypt. The Philae temple ruins were dismantled and reconstructed on higher ground in the 1960s to avoid damage from flooding.

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