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Multi-periodSite Name: Canopus Alternative Name: CanobusCountry: Egypt
NOTE: This site is 9.832 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Lower Egypt (North) Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Latitude: 31.304167N Longitude: 30.100556E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
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An Ancient Egyptian coastal town, located in the Nile Delta. Its site is in the eastern outskirts of modern-day Alexandria, around 25 kilometres from the centre of that city.
Canopus was located on the western bank at the mouth of the westernmost branch of the Delta – known as the Canopic or Heracleotic branch.
It was the principal port in Egypt for Greek trade before the foundation of Alexandria. Nevertheless, it was rivalled in this respect by Naucratis, and by Heracleion, the latter city only discovered by archaeologists in 2000.
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