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In the year 527 Flavius Anicius Justinnianus became ruler of the eastern half of the Roman Empire. This Serbian peasant(he came from Uskub, the much disputed railroad junction of the later war)had no use for “booklearning” 公元527年 查士丁尼一世 成为东罗马帝国的皇帝。 查士丁尼一世，他的故乡是当今的马其顿首都——斯科普里，虽然会拉丁语，接受过先进的教育，但是他本身却排斥那象形文字 It was by his orders that the ancient Athenian school of philosophy was finally suppressed.And it was he who closed the doors of the only Egyptian temple that had continued to do business centuries after the valley of the Nile had been invaded by the monks of the new Christian faith. 在他的命令下，新雅典娜学院，这个代表着雅典哲学的古老学院，被迫关闭。而这更代表着，关闭了当时延续数世纪仍然在使用象形文字的埃及神庙，而尼罗河附近的神庙早就应基督教的入侵而遭到摧毁。 This temple stood on a little island called Philae, not far from the first great waterfall of the Nile.Ever since men could remember ,the spot had been dedicated to the worship of Isis and for some curious reason,the Goddess had survived where all her African and Greek and Roman rivals had miserably perished. 这个寺庙坐落在一个叫做Philae的小岛，这个小岛离尼罗河瀑布不远，从埃及文明发源开始，这个地方就专门被用来进行太阳神祭祀。同时，在各种意外因素的作用下，即使罗马教会入侵，太阳神信仰仍在非洲，希腊以及罗马等地，没有消失，顽强的挣扎着。 | 
