Bigeh Island in Aswan
If you didn’t visit the island of Bigeh you are missing a lot. It is an island and archaeological site that sits along the Nile River in historic Nubia and is connected to the Aswan Governorate of southern Egypt. It was a holy place to the ancient Egyptians. There was a rumor that Osiris was buried there.
Bigeh is an island and archaeological site in the southern Egyptian governorate of Aswan, located along the Nile River in historic Nubia. Since the dam's original completion in 1902, the island has been located within its reservoir, the Old Aswan Dam.
Bigeh Island was an Egyptian sacred ground. They thought that the island held Osiris's tomb, and the temple that stood there was called Abaton, which translates to "untrodden place" in Greek because only priests were permitted to enter. Seneca and Lucan both mentioned the temple.
It is one of the world Heritage sites, located close to Philae and Agilikia islands in the middle of ancient archaeological sites, the temple found there was named Abaton, Greek for "untrodden place" because only clergy were allowed to put foot there. and also the temple was referred to as Seneca and Lucan. It is believed that it might have been built in the Roman era too.
Because of its near place to the largest cult sites of Philae, its importance, and it was in the center of Osiris worship too. it is one of a large number of locations claimed as the burial place of the god.
the structures in Bigeh were untouched by the flooding of Lake Nasser by the Aswan Dam project, because of the location on the highest outcrop of rocks on the island. Wide lotus-headed columns flank the gateway. and In the distance is topped with a relief carving of a winged sun disk, , the monuments of Philae can be seen from there too, including the Hypaethral Kiosk of Trajan and a large part of the Isis temple.
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