Talk:Tanis, Egypt
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I am removing this (unverified, advertisement for someone's religious theories):
- Tanis, as Zoan, was also used by an earlier dynasty of kings who immediately predated the arrival of the Hyksos in northern Egypt' Nile Delta. These were the 14th Dynasty, :whom I believe ruled there until the early to mid 17th Century BC, when ABRAHAM is said (in the Dead Sea Scrolls) to have gone to Zoan in order to escape famine in Canaan. :(See my website "thecreativeuniverse.org" for more information).
NeferSnoopy 22:34, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
I am removing this:
- It became known as Avaris, the Hyksos capital of the 12th Dynasty.
Tanis was never known as Avaris, and neither Tanis nor the Hyksos existed during the 12th Dynasty. —Nefertum17 19:58, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I agree that the above statement should have been removed. But, as a way of explaining how the initial author could have come to write that, it is worth remembering that it was the original excavator's (Pierre Montet's) contention that Tanis was also Avaris. He has been proven defonatively wrong by subsiquent excavations -- particularly the discovery and excavations by the Austrians under Manfred Bietak of Tell el-Daba (ancient Avaris).
[edit] Current information source
The May/June 2005 issue of the magazine Archaeology has an article title "Treasures of the Forgotten Pharaohs" that is of interest. see the web site for more info. -- WCFrancis 03:40, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
