Isis Island

Isis Island is a hotel in Aswan Governorate, Egypt. Isis Island is situated nearby to the historic building Nubian Village, as well as near the archaeological site hieroglyphs.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Elephantine and Nubian Museum.

Elephantine

Island

Photo: RolandUnger, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Elephantine is an island on the Nile, forming part of the city of Aswan in Upper Egypt. The archaeological digs on the island became a World Heritage Site in 1979, along with other examples of Upper Egyptian architecture, as part of the "Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae".

Nubian Museum

Museum

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.

The Nubian Museum is an archaeological museum in Aswan, Upper Egypt. It was built in 23 November 1997 following the UNESCO International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia. Nubian Museum is situated 1 km east of Isis Island.

Aswan Museum

Museum

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Aswan Museum is a museum in Elephantine, located on the south-eastern side of Aswan, Egypt. It was set up in 1912 by the British Egyptologist Cecil Mallaby Firth. Aswan Museum is situated 1 km northeast of Isis Island.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Aswan and Shellal.

Aswan

Photo: MJJR, CC BY 3.0.

Aswan is the southernmost city of Egypt, some 870 km south of Cairo, just below the Aswan Dam and Lake Nasser, with a population of 275,000. Aswan is far more relaxed and smaller than Cairo and Luxor.

Shellal

Village

Shellal is a small ancient village on the banks of the Nile, south of Aswan in Upper Egypt. It was the traditional northern frontier of the Nubian region with both the Egyptian Empire and the Roman Empire. Shellal is situated 3 km south of Isis Island.

Wadi Kubbaniya

Locality

Wadi Kubbaniya is a Late Paleolithic site in Upper Egypt. Archaeologists initially believed that the site held evidence for some of the earliest examples of agriculture. Wadi Kubbaniya is situated 10 km west of Isis Island.

Isis Island

Type: Hotel
Categories: building, tourism, hotel building, and accommodation
Location: Aswan Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude

24.07867° or 24° 4′ 43″ north

Longitude

32.87969° or 32° 52′ 47″ east

Open location code

7GPJ3VHH+FV

OpenStreetMap ID

way 103964582

OpenStreetMap feature

building=hotel

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=hotel

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