Elephants Island

Elephants island, is an island in the middle of the River Nile, one of the forts the strongest along the borders of southern Egypt, are separated by the Nile to the two channels Maackstin in Aswan, the Temple of Philae and moved from its original location on the island of Philae was assembled on the island of Ijileka, in the wake of the High Dam .
The name of the elephants or Philae to the Greek language, which means (beloved) or (grains), but the Arabic name to her that he (Anas exist), the proportion of the myth of Anas in the story of the Thousand and One Nights The name of the ancient Egyptian and Coptic is Bilak or Bilak and means to reduce or end because it was the last The borders of Egypt in the south. And a set of worship dedicated to the worship of the goddess Isis is that the island contained the temples of Hathor and Amenhotep, and other temples.