Agilkia Island (also called Agilika; Arabic: أجيليكا) 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,[1][2] the Philae complex was dismantled and relocated to Agilkia island, as part of a wider UNESCO project[3] related to the 1960s construction of the Aswan High Dam and the eventual flooding of many sites posed by its large reservoir upstream.[4][5]

Agilkia, like the island, was the name chosen for the planned landing site on a comet by the Rosetta spacecraft mission's Philae lander.[6][7] 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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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Philae, Temple of Isis in Philae and Kiosk of Trajan in Philae.

• Griffith, F.L. (1911). "Philae" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 21 (11th ed.). p. 373.
• Sacred Temple Island of Philae
• Philae @ The Domain of Het-Hert another alternative name for Hathor - aerial view of the temples
• Philae @ Akhet Egyptology

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