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Private Tour to Tanis and Suez Canal: Explore Ancient Obelisks and a Global Trade Route

Tanis

This is an extraordinary excursion to the remnants of the 22nd dynasty, boasting the greatest collection of obelisks, followed by a visit to the Suez Canal, which today stands as the world’s most vital commercial pathway.

Duration: 8 hours

Cancellation: 1 day learn more

Highlights

Tanis - After breakfast early morning around 7 Oâ€™clock our guide will be waiting you holding a sign by our company logo to be ready drive about 2 hours and half to Al Sharqia province South of El manzala Lake which located on the ruins of the old Capital of Egypt Tanis nowadays is known by San El Hagar which is known in Bible So-An It was established by the end of the 20th Dynasty the become the Capital of Egypt during the period of 21st dynasty , It was the birth Province of the King Smendes the founder of 21st dynasty , During 22nd dynasty was the political capital of Egypt .It was a very important commercial and strategic center but all its population immigrated and left it because it was threatened to be covered by the water of El manzala Lake . There was no any mention for Tanis before the modern kingdom by the opposite of Sa El-Hagar which located next of the western River Nile branch which known by pharaohs by Saaw
There are ruins of a number of temples , including the chief temple dedicated to Amun , and Some of the Royal tombs of the third intermediate Period like the tomb of the king psusennes l , Amenemope and Shoshenq ll â€“ which are survived the depredations of tomb robbers throughout antiquity . which were discovered by Pierre Montet and proved to contain a large catalogue of gold , jewelry , lapis lazuli and precious stones including the funerary masks of these kings . the excavation 2009 the Egyptian antiquities counsel excavate the Sacred lake of the goddess Mout temple and so it is considered the second Sacred Lake in Tanis and San El Hagar .

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