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This gallery has photographs of the main sites North of Cairo, usually visited privately as not part of most Egyptian tours, and includes Heliopolis, Tell Basta near Zagazig and Tanis near the north coast of Egypt
Tanis Crocodile Relief 1317EG05jhp Tanis Ancient Egyptian Sheshonq tomb wall reliefs crocodile Horus Suchos at this Royal Necropolis locatedon the Tanis site to the side of main and famous Royal Tomb of Psusennes which was intact and gave up one of the richest burial good collections, apart from Tutankhamun, with its famous silver coffin, now in the Cairo Museum. Tanis was once held to be the capital created by Ramses, now thought to be in the Quantir area but it was the capital of the 24th Nome of Lower Egypt and important in the late Egyptian period. The site has a Ramesside Temple of Amun with other temples from reigns of Osorkon, Sheshonq and Ptolemy. A visit to Tanis is usually by private means but can be incorporated with a day trip through the Delta visiting Heliopolis and Tell Basta but does involve considerable motoring. Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Tanis, San al-Hagar, Djane, Delta, Avaris, Quantir, landscape, crocodile, Suchos, Sebek, Sobek, history, ancient, antiquity, archaeology, Egyptology, Ramasses, Ramses, granite, carvings, hieroglyphs, Royal, Necropolis, tomb, pharaoh, Shoshenq, Sheshonq, wall, reliefs, carving, Horus, falcon
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Photographer: Jim Henderson
Collection: North of Cairo
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Tanis Crocodile Relief 1317EG05jhp
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Tanis Ancient Egyptian Sheshonq tomb wall reliefs crocodile Horus Suchos

at this Royal Necropolis locatedon the Tanis site to the side of main and famous Royal Tomb of Psusennes which was intact and gave up one of the richest burial good collections, apart from Tutankhamun, with its famous silver coffin, now in the Cairo Museum. Tanis was once held to be the capital created by Ramses, now thought to be in the Quantir area but it was the capital of the 24th Nome of Lower Egypt and important in the late Egyptian period. The site has a Ramesside Temple of Amun with other temples from reigns of Osorkon, Sheshonq and Ptolemy. A visit to Tanis is usually by private means but can be incorporated with a day trip through the Delta visiting Heliopolis and Tell Basta but does involve considerable motoring.
Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Tanis, San al-Hagar, Djane, Delta, Avaris, Quantir, landscape, crocodile, Suchos, Sebek, Sobek, history, ancient, antiquity, archaeology, Egyptology, Ramasses, Ramses, granite, carvings, hieroglyphs, Royal, Necropolis, tomb, pharaoh, Shoshenq, Sheshonq, wall, reliefs, carving, Horus, falcon