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  • Karanis

    Karanis was an agricultural town in Graeco-Roman Egypt, located in the northeast corner of the Fayum,Egypt. The site was one of a number of towns established in the Arsinoite nome under Ptolemy II Philadelphus in the 3rd century BC.
    The site is one of the elements included in the UNESCO Tentative List for World Heritage designation, El Fayoum.
    UNESCO Tentative List
    Karanis
    by Roland Unger, GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
    Karanis
    by Roland Unger, GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
    Karanis
    by Roland Unger, GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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    Karanis

    UNESCO Tentative List

    Date of Submission

    1994

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    Historic Cities and Regions

    Location

    Egypt

    Faiyum Governorate

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    3rd Century BC

    Ptolemaic

    Ptolemaic

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    Ptolemaic Monuments

     

     

     

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