Tags : Historical Site
Timings : Sunday - Monday: 7:00 AM - 06:00 PM
Tanis, a day trip from Cairo, is located in the Nile Delta, about 165 kilometres from Egypt's capital. Tourists can visit several temple ruins, including the main temple dedicated to Amun, and a royal necropolis of the Third Intermediate Period. Pierre Montet found three sealed burials there in 1939 and 1940, those of the pharaohs Psusennes I, Amenemope and Shoshenq II, the only known intact royal burials from ancient Egypt.
Tanis, also known as San El-Hagar, was featured in the Indiana Jones film Raiders of the Lost Ark.