Agilkia Island Explained
Agilkia Island (also called Agilika;, from Old Nubian: ⲁ̅ⲅⲗ̅, romanised: agil, "mouth"[1]) is an island in the reservoir of the Old Aswan Dam along the Nile River in southern Egypt; it is the present site of the relocated ancient Egyptian temple complex of Philae. 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 wider UNESCO project[4] related to the 1960s construction of the Aswan High Dam and 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 on a comet by the Rosetta spacecraft mission's Philae lander.[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, after the ancient Egyptian city.
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24.0253°N 32.8842°W
Notes and References
- Book: Browne, Gerald M. . Old Nubian Dictionary . In Aedibus Peeters . 1996 . University of Virginia . 4.
- [Frederic Courtland Penfield]
- [Sidney Peel]
- https://whc.unesco.org/en/activities/172/ Monuments of Nubia-International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia
- https://whc.unesco.org/en/activities/173/ The Rescue of Nubian Monuments and Sites
- Book: Murray, Tim . Milestones in Archaeology: a Chronological Encyclopedia . ABC-CLIO . 464 . 2007 . 978-1-57607-186-1.
- Web site: Platt . Jane . Rosetta Races Toward Comet Touchdown . 6 November 2014 . . 7 November 2014 .
- News: Historic Comet Landing Site Has a New Name: Agilkia . https://web.archive.org/web/20141104181648/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/11208051/Rosetta-comet-chase-landing-site-named-Agilkia-after-island-in-Nile.html . dead . 4 November 2014 . . Sarah . Knapton . 4 November 2014 . 4 November 2014.
