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Multi-periodSite Name: Buto Alternative Name: Tell el-Farein, Tell el-Fara'in
Country: Egypt
NOTE: This site is 17.926 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: Lower Egypt (North) Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Alexandria  Nearest Village: Shâba
Latitude: 31.196536N  Longitude: 30.744744E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
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4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Ancient Village or Settlement in Lower Egypt (North)

Buto is a site south of Tanis in the Egyptian Delta, on the Sebennytic branch of the Nile, which used to be the capital of Lower Egypt during the Predynastic period. It was located along the southern shore of the Butic Lake. Buto was identified with the semi-mythical Predynastic capitals of Lower Egypt 'Pe and Dep'). The city now comprises of three mounds (tells) which consitutet the two parts of the town and a temple complex. The occupation of the site stretched from the Predynastic period up to the Roman Period.
The site was first re-identified by Flinders Petrie in 1888, although it was not to be systematically excavated until the 1960's , where only evidence of the Late Period, Ptolemaic Period and Roman Period was found. The Predynastic occupation was at first thought to have been a myth. The first evidence of Predynastic occupation at Buto was only first uncovered in the 1980's by Thomas von der Way, who had to dig down as deep as 7 Meters to find evidence. Buto was occupied for 500 years during the Predynastic Period, or from about 3500 BCE. The pottery finds supported the theory that Lower Egypt was taken over by Upper Egypt at the time of unification.

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Re: Buto by Runemage on Friday, 29 July 2011
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Hi Ingvar and welcome.
Oh, no, absolutely no suggestion of fake! When we have a site-page but no image, we automatically display nearby images from Panoramio etc. that haven't specifically been submitted here but are geographically very close.
The wording "These are probably not of the site on this page. Please Submit an Image or go out and take one for us!" just lets people know that the images they see may not be of the actual site, but are nearby.

We would like to display your photographs and any description you have of the site. If you'd like your photographs on here, please click on 'Submit an Image' on the list at the top right of the page, below the highlighted 'I have visited', 'I would like to visit.'

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Re: Buto by Anonymous on Friday, 29 July 2011
You have included my Panoramio photo from Buto. Under it you have written "...probably not of the site on this page". What do you mean? Do you suggest that I have submitted a fake photo? I have ten more photos from Buto, all taken on spot.
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