Image Tanis Ramses Obelisk Part EG077201JHP by Jim Henderson

 
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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 Ramses Obelisk Part EG077201JHP Tanis Amun Temple Ramses Painted Obelisk Pyramidion Standing Photo Ancient Egypt Delta site in the North once thought to be the capital created by Ramses but was the capital of the 24th Nome of Lower Egypt and important in the late Egyptian period. Has Ramesside Temple of Amun with other temples from reigns of Osorkon, Sheshonq and Ptolemy but of special interest are the Royal Tombs where that of Psusennes in particular 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. 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, history, ancient, upright, antiquity, archaeology, Egyptology, Ramasses, Ramses, Ramesses, granite, obelisk, carved, Horus, cartouche, pyramidion, top, standing, broken, hieroglyphs
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Photographer: Jim Henderson
Collection: North of Cairo
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Tanis Ramses Obelisk Part EG077201JHP
Upload Date: 2007-10-28 13:22:40
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Tanis Amun Temple Ramses Painted Obelisk Pyramidion Standing Photo Ancient

Egypt Delta site in the North once thought to be the capital created by Ramses but was the capital of the 24th Nome of Lower Egypt and important in the late Egyptian period. Has Ramesside Temple of Amun with other temples from reigns of Osorkon, Sheshonq and Ptolemy but of special interest are the Royal Tombs where that of Psusennes in particular 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. 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, history, ancient, upright, antiquity, archaeology, Egyptology, Ramasses, Ramses, Ramesses, granite, obelisk, carved, Horus, cartouche, pyramidion, top, standing, broken, hieroglyphs