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Multi-periodSite Name: Naucratis Alternative Name: Naukratis, Ναύκρατις, Piemro, Kom GieifCountry: Egypt
NOTE: This site is 19.909 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Lower Egypt (North) Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Village: Rashwan
Latitude: 30.900000N Longitude: 30.616667E
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 |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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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 |
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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 |
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A city of Ancient Egypt, on the Canopic branch of the Nile river, 45 miles SE of the open sea and Alexandria. It was the first and, for much of its early history, the only permanent Greek colony in Egypt; acting as a symbiotic nexus for the interchange of Greek and Egyptian art and culture.
The modern site of the city has become an archaeological find of the highest significance and the source of not only many beautiful objects of art now gracing the museums of the world but also an important source of some of the earliest Greek writing in existence, provided by the inscriptions on its pottery.
The sister port of Naucratis was the harbour town of Thonis/Heracleion, which was only discovered in 2000.
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