San El Hagar
Whether Tanis is considered to be the most important
archaeological site in Egypt's northern Delta or not, it is almost certainly
one of the largest and most impressive. Nevertheless, it is characterized by an
eclectic reuse of materials that were usurped from other locations and earlier
reigns. Tanis was actually its Greek name. We are told that its
ancient Egyptian name was Djanet. Tanis was built upon the Nile distributary
known as Bahr Saft, which is now only a small silted up stream that dispatches
into Lake Manzalla.