Sehel Island | Ankh | The Island of Sehel is about 4km south of Aswan, in the Nile to the north of the old Aswan Dam. In ancient times travellers on their way to Nubia, or who had just returned from an expedition to the south, would make a pilgrimage to the sacred Sehel island and leave inscriptions recording their appeals or prayers of gratitude for help in safely...
