السبت، 20 أغسطس 2011

Its not our purpose here to tear up this particular


Don't worry, Elephantine Island has not gone missing beneath the Nile, and is likely named for the rock formations along its shores


Obviously, anyone even remotely familiar with Aswan knows that Elephantine Island is not submerged by the Aswan Dam. In fact, it sits in front of the Dam across from the city of Aswan. Furthermore, there are various proposed reasons why Elephantine is named as such, but none of them have to do with the shape of the island.


Its not our purpose here to tear up this particular web site line by line, but simply to show that one must be very careful about all the web sites and their theories that are floating around the internet. Frankly, it is best first to study the traditional, scholarly facets of Egyptology before delving into alternative theories

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