We visited a lot of temples this week. Here we are at the Temple at Philae. It is an extremely interesting temple because it was submerged below water for approximately 40-50 years. This occurred after the high dam at Aswan was built and flooded many historical sites. It is only through the efforts of an international group that $40 million was raised to bring the temple stone by stone to an island nearby. There were about 47,000 pieces that were brought out from below the water and reassembled.
I also filmed two Egyptian men singing for the camera and then later I attempt to get them to sing again. You can't hear us talking, but I am basically asking them to describe the song and sing it again. They never sing again, but they do say, "America good" several times.
Someone in our group commented that it is odd to see an American talking to two Egyptians in galabias on a 2,000 year old temple column.
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