• The Egyptian Museum
• Saqquara
• Dashur
• Giza

• Elephantine
• Philae
• St. Simeon
• Abu Simbel
• Down the Nile

• Edfu
• Karnak
• Luxor Temple

• Valley of the Kings
• Hatshepsut's Temple
• Tombs of the Nobles
• The Ramesseum
• New Gourna

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Philae

The island of Philae was flooded completely when the High Dam at Aswan was built in the 1960s, and the temples (late, about 30th Dynasty, 450 BC) were dismantled and reassembled at the island of Agilkia; they're still quite impressive.

I kept running across words that I suddenly understand the meaning of - "deserted" and now "defaced". The defacing was done in ancient times by whoever was in power against whoever wasn't. Simple as that!

from the water	The first pylon
On the warpath - but defaced
The launches that bring you here	Detail of pylon