Tanis

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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 and statues of 7 temples dedicated to the Triad of Thebes among others from the Late Period , as well as a royal necropolis in which tombs of some of the kings of the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Dynasties were found intact in 1940 . The ruins of the city were used as a quarry to extract building materials for other later buildings . Many of the statues and sphinxes were born to Europe and now exposed in the Louvre and Berlin Museums among others .
The Necropolis of Tanis includes seven tombs that served as the burial places of many kings of the Late Period . Some of these tombs they were more excessively reused by later kings .