The site

Elephantine is an island in the Nile forming part of Aswan in Upper Egypt, occupied from around 3000 BCE to 400 CE as an Egyptian city and temple site. Excavations here recovered a remarkable trove of Aramaic papyri and ostraca documenting a mercenary community that kept its own temple to Yahweh, coexisting and clashing with local Egyptian religion until the temple's destruction in 410 BCE. It became a World Heritage Site in 1979.

Field notes

civilizations

Egyptian

types

City · Temple

occupied

3,000 BCE — 400 CE

country

Egypt

elevation

101 m above sea level