Pi-Ramesses
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Pi-Ramesses was the new capital built by the Nineteenth Dynasty Pharaoh Ramesses II at Qantir, near the old site of Avaris. The city had served as a summer palace under Seti I, and may have been found
The feet of a Ramses II statue at Pi-Ramesses
Tanis
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Tanis or San al-Hagar is the Greek name for ancient Egyptian ḏꜥn.t, an important archaeological site in the northeastern Nile Delta of Egypt, and the location of a city of the same name. Tanis was the
Pi-Ramesses
…I (c. 1292–1290 BC) while he served under Horemheb. In 1884, Flinders Petrie arrived in Egypt to begin his excavations there. His first dig was at Tanis, where he arrived with 170 workmen. Later in the 1930s, the ruins at Tanis were explored by Pierre Montet. The masses of broken Ramesside stonework at…
The ruins of Tanis today
The Royal Tombs of Tanis
Wendjebauendjed's funerary mask
Pharaoh Osorkon II's tomb at Tanis