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- Behbeit-el-Hagar -
Behbeit-el-Hagar is located to the North-East of the Sammanud town on the Western coast of the Nile arm, called Damietta.
Here, among the farmlands, there is an archaeological zone, enclosed with a high fence. This place is known as the Temple of the Goddess Isis.
No any major archaeological works were done here. But despite the impassable ruins, this place was visited and described by different researchers, beginning from the XVIII century. In 1991 French Egyptologist Christian Favard-Meeks published the presumptive scheme-reconstruction of the Isis Temple, based on inscriptions found on the surfaces of the granit blocks.
The total area of the Temple covers about 7.6 hectares. The remains of fencing made of mud brick, are still visible from the Northern and Southern sides of the main structure. Now the Temple appears before the eyes of the visitors as a jumble of blocks of gray and black granite, barely allowing to determine the position of the ancient megalithic structures. Its area is approximately 80m x 55m . |
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