Karanis
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karanis-188-6807711
title:
Karanis
text:
Karanis, located in what is now Kom Aushim, was an agricultural town in the Ptolemaic Kingdom, and Roman Egypt located in the northeast corner of the Faiyum Oasis. It was roughly 60 hectares in size and its peak population is estimated to be 4000 people, although it could have been as much as three times greater. Karanis was one of a number of towns in the Arsinoite nome established in the third century BC by Ptolemy II Philadelphus. The town largely stagnated in the late Ptolmaic period, until
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Archaeological site in the Egyptian depression of el-Faiyum
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karanis
date created:
2007-05-10T06:43:49Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T23:46:08Z
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