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Tebtunis
Tebtunis was a city in Ancient Egypt. It was located in the present-day village of Tell Umm el-Baragat, in the Al Fayyum Governorate, Lower Egypt. The town was also known as Theodosiopolis during the Greco-Roman period. Tebtunis was founded around 1800 BC by the Twelfth Dynasty Pharaoh Amenemhat III. The town flourished during the Ptolemaic period and is famous for the many papyri in Demotic and Greek found there.
The site is one of the elements included in the UNESCO Tentative List for World Heritage designation, El Fayoum.
by Roland Unger, GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
by Roland Unger, GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Roland Unger, GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsElevation: 27 m
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Tebtunis
UNESCO Tentative List
Date of Submission
1994
Second Millennium BC
Ancient Egyptians
Ptolemaic + Roman
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