Thanks for the link,
Mimoprohodil. However, it is hard to look on the screen, but found until Kerama mention of the ruins in 1822, the temple of Amenhotep III (incidentally, the one who reclines in the form of sphinxes in front of Arts in St. Petersburg
) to about. Elephantine. For more information about the destroyed in the XIX century and the early monuments of ancient Egypt could find in the
http://books.google.com/books?id=q9Y...amp; f = false
There is an (open access) paper: Labib Habachi. The Destruction of Temples in Egypt. P. 192 - 199. It lists literally dozens of non-existent ancient Egyptian temples. Quoted from a letter Champollion in 1829, listing of temples that were destroyed in just a few years before writing the letter and, obviously, Champollion, famous for describing the expedition of Napoleon. Why destroyed? Well, the temple of Amenhotep III at Elephantine - on the orders of the Governor of Aswan: he did not like the fact that many foreigners come to look at this church (as well as ruined and the Temple of Thutmose III ibid.). Or, to build a stone extracted from the sugar plant turned far ... Hair stand on end from such barbarism.