San El Hagar

San El Hagar is a small town in El Sharqiya Governorate with a mixture of Bedouin and farmer population. Nowadays, the town is famous for housing the archeological site of ancient Tanis that had a great importance during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Dynasties. It is considered one of the major sites in the northern Delta region but most of the parts of the temples in that area were taken from other temples and tombs of earlier time.