Tanis is a city near the town of San El Hagar, in the governorate of El Sharqiya. Tanis is the Greek name of ancient Djanet.
The city was founded at this site in the Twentieth Dynasty, due to the strategic importance of the place that received all the enemy attacks coming from the East. It became the capital of Egypt during the Twenty-second Dynasty. In the 6th century AD, it was abandoned to the nearby ancient city of Tennis, when the Lake Manzala threatened it with inundation. That city is usually confused by the capital of the Hyksos, Avaris, and the City of Ramses, Per-Ramses.
The site is considered the most important archeological site in the north of Egypt due to the abundance of remains of many buildings. In the site, there are structures, nilometers, columns, obelisks, blocks an...
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