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Medinet Madi
Medinet Madi is a site in the southwestern Faiyum region of Egypt with the remains of a Greco-Roman town where a temple of the cobra-goddess Renenutet was founded during the reigns of Amenemhat III and Amenemhat IV (1855-1799 BC). It was later expanded and embellished during the Greco-Roman period. In the Middle Kingdom the town was called Dja, in the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods it was called Narmuthis.
The site is one of the elements included in the UNESCO Tentative List for World Heritage designation, El Fayoum.by Einsamer Schütze, GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commonsby Einsamer Schütze, GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commonsby Einsamer Schütze, GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsElevation: 29 m
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UNESCO Tentative List
Date of Submission
1994
Second Millennium BC
Ancient Egyptians
Ptolemaic + Roman
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