We then traveled by speedboat to Philae Temple. After the construction of the Aswan Dam, but before the High Dam, this temple for Goddess Isis was submerged for half the year. The new High Dam would have totally submerged the temple, so the Egyptian government with assistance from 20 other countries moved the temple (comprising 37,000 stone blocks) over a 10 year period to the new Philae Island, Agiliqiya Island. The scenes on this temple depict the legend of Horus, the son of Isis and Osiris. Osiris’s evil brother Seti killed Osiris because he wanted Isis for his wife. Osiris’s body was cut into 16 pieces and spread across Egypt. Isis searched and found all the parts of his body, and used her milk of life to bring him back to immortal life. Horus avenged this by vanquishing Seti and uniting Upper and Lower Egypt. The temple was defaced by the Christians while they were under Roman persecution and lived in the temple. The Coptic Cross and alter was built into one of the walls.