The Tombs of San Al-Hajar

The Tombs of San Al-Hajar (Tanis) Description

Enjoy your Egypt tours in one of the Egyptian villages in Al-Sharqia governorate in Egypt, which is called Tanis. It was mentioned in the old Egyptian writings as Janat.

This place was established in the period of the Twenty-first Dynasty, San al-Hajar was the capital of Egypt during the rule of the Twenty-second Dynasty. The city of San al-Hajar or Tanis that is included in our Egypt day tours had commercial and military importance, but in the sixth century AD it was threatened with drowning because of Al- Manzala lake, and the history of Tanis goes back to the modern state and it had no mention before, but San A- Hajar on the western bank of the Nile was mentioned, and it dates back to 4000 BC.

The population of the northern San Al Hajar is 30318, but the population of the southern San Al- Hajar is 43157 ,therefore, the total number of San Al- Hajar is 73976. All this geographical info will be cleared during Egypt tour Packages.

What will you see in Tanis?

When you take your Egypt Classic tours in this place, you will notice some remains of the ancient temples in this site, and these remains seem very old.

These temples that you will visit during 7 days Egypt tours were apparently dedicated to Amun worshipers. This place also includes a number of huge tombs in the third transitional period such as the tombs of the Pharaohs Basusang and Shoshenq II. If you are a fan of the pharaonic era, I recommend checking out our Aswan day tours.

These tombs were not stolen by thieves in the ancient era. All these graves were discovered by the French Egyptologist Pierre Montet in 1939 and 1940. If you ask about the contents of these tombs, you will know that there are Very old gemstones and a lot of funeral masks and collectibles belonging to the owners of the graves. There are a large number belonging to the kings that were placed in their graves in order to use them in the other world.

Famous Attractions in Tanis

In 2009 the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities announced the discovery of the archaeologists of an important site in Tanis, which is the holy lake of a temple called the Temple of the Goddess Mut and this lake that is included in our 10 Days Egypt tour Packages is not the first lake to be found in Tanis, but it is the second lake that was found there. This place has a special nature to enjoy in 13 Days Egypt tours and sanctity to the ancient Egyptians.

When you walk among the Pharaonic monuments, you will imagine that this place had a large number of craftsmen, workers and others who had a great role in the progress of this place and Tanis in the place preferred to the kings.

Therefore, they chose it to be the capital of Egypt at that time. Although it was neglected for some time, it had a great historical role because it was a place for judgment.

It was also a place where Egyptian decisions were made for the country, which necessitated attention to it and the building of temples and holy places for worshipers of the gods in that place, which tells a lot and a lot of the ancient Egyptian life on the walls of the temples through many writings, drawings and other inscriptions illustrating some of the achievements. What do you think about continuing your wonder in Cairo day tours to visit Giza pyramids and Great Sphinx?

The Historical Value of the Archaeological Tanis City

Some people do not know much about the value of this great archaeological site, which is located in Sharqia governorate. This archaeological area is about 150 km away from Cairo.

If you take an enjoyable Egypt Honeymoon tours in this archaeological place, you will realize that it derived its archaeological and historical value from the great temples in it, and the tombs that you will find there, such as the tomb of Osrakon the second which is the most important and most famous of the Pharaonic tombs, as well as there is an archaeological room which is engraved, but it was affected by environmental factors.

In the eastern side there is the tomb of King Shoshenq III, which consists of one room and does not have a roof and on its sides, you will find religious texts which had two coffins of the king and the cover of a coffin.

You will see the tomb of King Susans the First as well as an unknown tomb with a huge coffin, so this site is a historical site via Egypt Christmas tours including valuable treasures for the ancient Egyptians.

The Temples of Tanis

When you see a group of large columns, be sure that it is the remains of the temple of the god Amun, which was built in the style of the modern state buildings. This temple is a very large temple which had a large number of clerics taking care of worshiping the god Amun, as well as obtaining the approval of the god to crown kings and make fateful war decisions and other important decisions, its area is 300 meters Around this temple there was a huge wall made of mud bricks to protect the temple, and there was a holy lake which had many uses because it was used in the irrigation of the land, as well as the clergy used to purify themselves before the various religious rituals, and there are next to it some archaeological stones to discover in Egypt luxury tours, which are the remains of a temple for the god khenso and the remains of the temple of the goddess Mut which is the god of motherhood in Pharaonic Egypt.

There are also statues around the temple, and there is a wall made of mud bricks, as well as temples in this place which are incomplete due to environmental factors that led to the destruction of some of them. The walls of these tombs indicate the achievements of the reign during which this place has historical value. The Components of these ancient Egyptian temples are very great.

After completing your Egypt Short break tours in Thanis tombs, you will enjoy visiting other very beautiful archaeological sites in Cairo, which is the capital of Egypt and it contains the treasures of the Pharaohs in the Egyptian Museum, which includes the largest number of great Egyptian antiquities, as well as many museums and tourist attractions.

Also enjoy the bewitching nature of these beautiful places that annually attract a large number of tourists from all over the world.