Agilkia Island
Agilkia Island(also calledAgilika;Arabic:أجيليكا,fromOld Nubian:ⲁ̅ⲅⲗ̅, romanised:agil,"mouth"[1]) is an island in the reservoir of theOld Aswan Damalong theNile Riverin southernEgypt;it is the present site of the relocatedancient Egyptiantemplecomplex ofPhilae.Partially to completely flooded by the old dam's construction in 1902,[2][3]the Philae complex was dismantled and relocated to Agilkia island, as part of a widerUNESCOproject[4]related to the 1960s construction of theAswan High Damand the eventual flooding of many sites posed by its large reservoir upstream.[5][6]
Agilkia,like the island, was the name chosen for the planned landing site ona cometby theRosettaspacecraft mission'sPhilaelander.[7][8]Upon initial touchdown, however, the lander took a large bounce followed by a smaller one before finally coming to rest perhaps a kilometre away from Agilkia, at a site named Abydos, afterthe ancient Egyptian city.
References
[edit]- ^Browne, Gerald M. (1996).Old Nubian Dictionary.University of Virginia: In Aedibus Peeters. p. 4.
- ^Frederic Courtland Penfield,Harnessing the Nile,Century Magazine,(February, 1899)
- ^Sidney Peel,The Binding of the Nile and the New Soudan,Oxford 1904, p.76
- ^Monuments of Nubia-International Campaign to Save the Monuments of NubiaWorld Heritage Committee, UNESCO
- ^The Rescue of Nubian Monuments and Sites,UNESCO
- ^Murray, Tim (2007).Milestones in Archaeology: a Chronological Encyclopedia.ABC-CLIO. p. 464.ISBN978-1-57607-186-1.
- ^Platt, Jane (6 November 2014)."Rosetta Races Toward Comet Touchdown".NASA.Retrieved7 November2014.
- ^Knapton, Sarah (4 November 2014)."Historic Comet Landing Site Has a New Name: Agilkia".The Daily Telegraph.Archived fromthe originalon 4 November 2014.Retrieved4 November2014.
External links
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- Griffith, F.L. (1911)..Encyclopædia Britannica.Vol. 21 (11th ed.). p. 373.
- Sacred Temple Island of Philae
- Philae @ The Domain of Het-Hertanother alternative name forHathor- aerial view of the temples
- Philae @ Akhet Egyptology
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