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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 Necropolis & Office EG077281JHP Tanis Royal Tombs Necropolis Exterior Ticket Office Site Entrance Ancient Egyptian Delta located in Northern Egypt 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. The ticket office and entrance is off to the right back of this view and the first part visited is the largest complex, badly ruined however, the Ramesside Temple of Amun and there are 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, ancient, antiquity, archaeology, landscape, Egyptology, Ticket, Office, entrance, Royal, Necropolis, tombs, exterior, Psuennes, Takelot, Osorkon, Shoshenq, Sheshonq, roof, mudbrick, enclosure
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Photographer: Jim Henderson
Collection: North of Cairo
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Tanis Necropolis & Office EG077281JHP
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Tanis Royal Tombs Necropolis Exterior Ticket Office Site Entrance Ancient

Egyptian Delta located in Northern Egypt 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. The ticket office and entrance is off to the right back of this view and the first part visited is the largest complex, badly ruined however, the Ramesside Temple of Amun and there are 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, ancient, antiquity, archaeology, landscape, Egyptology, Ticket, Office, entrance, Royal, Necropolis, tombs, exterior, Psuennes, Takelot, Osorkon, Shoshenq, Sheshonq, roof, mudbrick, enclosure