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It is considered one of the largest temples during the Eighteenth Dynasty . It was built for the God Min , the god of reproduction and fertility . In 1970 , it was moved from Nubia to where it is today , with other landmarks .
To the north is a huge power station .
During your visit , you can also visit the camel market , where the camels that are brought from North Sudan are sold in this market every Tuesday .
Also known as the Mandulis Temple , is an ancient Egyptian temple , originally located at Bab al-Kalabsha , about 50 km south of Aswan .
The Temple was located on the West Bank of the Nile and was built around the year 30 BC during the Roman rule of Egypt .
And it is a temple to worship the gods Mandulis , the sun god of the Nubians .
It was built on the ruins of another temple for king Amenhotep III and was built during the reign of Emperor Augustus , but it was not completed .
The dimensions of the temple are 76 meters in length and 22 meters in width .
And although the temple was established in the Roman era , it contains drawings of the God Horus on the inner wall of the temple .
The temple contains a staircase leading to the roof that overlooks an open view of the temple and the sacred lake .
There are many historical records on the walls of the temple , including the orders of the Roman commander ( Aurelius Bessarion ) ( in the year 250 AD , in which pigs are forbidden to enter the temple , as well as writings of the Nubian King ( Silko ) , in which he records his victories over ( Belmis ) and represents himself as a Roman soldier on the back Faras and Silko was a Christian Nubian king of the Kingdom of Nobatia .
When Christianity was introduced to Egypt , the temple was used as a Church .
With the support of the German government , the Kalabsha temple was moved to protect it from being submerged in water after the construction of the High Dam .
The New site of the temple is located directly south of the Dam , and the relocation process took two years . It is the second largest temple of the monuments of Nubia ( after Abu Simbel ) to be moved . Although the temple is incomplete , it is considered one of the best architectural examples of Egyptian architecture in Nubia .
Ancient Egyptian numbers
Here we see an inscription depicting ancient Egyptian numbers .
The Egyptians also had hieroglyphs for numbers . Their number system was based on the scale of ten like ours .
The symbols were written together to make up more complex numbers . For example , the number 123 would have a coil of rope , 2 heal bones , and three lines . Just like words and letters , the numbers could be written left to right , right to left , or top to bottom.
Holy Lake
This rectangular water body is the sacred lake , and it was used as a place for purification before religious ceremonies , and the depth of the holy lake is about 8 meters, and that sacred lake was long ago connected to the Nile through many channels, but these channels did it has been around for a long time , and now the water of the sacred lake is groundwater, not the water of the Nile .
We see stairs around the holy lake . This is the lagoon pass for curfews , and there are some small holes beside the stairs .
These are the nests of geese , and these nests were specially created because geese are a symbol of the God Amun .
In the past , there were many stone-forming workshops beside the sacred lake , such as stone cutting , statue making , etc . Even this scarab was made in these workshops.
In addition to the workshop, there is the home of the High Priest next to the Holy Lake .
It was established by King Thutmose III in the temple of Karnak , 80 meters long and 40 meters wide , and was surrounded by a wall .... and on its northern and southern sides there is a scale of the Nile , and there are also Nile scale tables on its northern and southern sides .
Thousands of years ago , the water in this lake was not groundwater, but rather water from the Nile River .
Also , thousands of years ago, all the water used in the temple came from the “ Holy Lake “ . Every day , priests must bathe here several times before coming to the gods to ensure that they serve the deities with clean flesh.
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