{"id":52399,"date":"2023-12-21T18:09:44","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T17:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=52399"},"modified":"2023-12-21T18:09:48","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T17:09:48","slug":"the-temple-a-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/the-temple-a-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"The Temple, a Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"Every temple is a bridge, a bridge between the human being and God, humanity and divinity. In the case of the Temple of Isis, this bridging applies on many levels. As a magnet for tourists, it builds a bridge from antiquity to the present day.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe \"Pearl of the Nile\" was the name given by many travellers to the Temple of Isis on the island of Philae in the very south of Egypt. But at the beginning of the twentieth century, the first Nile dam, which was built between 1898 and 1902, flooded the temple. Under the leadership of UNESCO, 50 nations gathered expertise and funding to save the temple in the 1970s.\n\n\n\nThe Pearl of the Nile became the largest jigsaw puzzle on earth, as the contracted construction companies sawed the temple complex into 37,363 individual stone blocks weighing b<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to keep reading? We're pleased to present our Summer 2026 offer, valid until August 8: <a href=\"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/subscribe\/\"> three months of free access <\/a> \u2013 cancel anytime.\r\n<br><br>\r\nIf you're already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log in here<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every temple is a bridge, a bridge between the human being and God, humanity and divinity. In the case of the Temple of Isis, this bridging applies on many levels. As a magnet for tourists, it builds a bridge from antiquity to the present day. The &#8220;Pearl of the Nile&#8221; was the name given by many travellers to the Temple of Isis on the island of Philae in the very south of Egypt. But at the beginning of the twentieth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9159,"featured_media":51246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8823,9201],"tags":[11395,8824],"class_list":["post-52399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reflection","category-religion-en","tag-2023-45-en","tag-spotlights"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}