Following the construction of the Aswan high dam, the monuments of the island of PHILAE were permanently flooded to a third of their height and subject to daily fluctuations in the water level which ate away their foundations and threatened to bring them down to ruins. In May 1968 was decided to dismantle and re- erect the monuments on the neighbouring island of AGILKIA which is sufficiently elevated to be above the maximum water level.
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