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So he had never painstakingly dated at all. If he had, he would have discovered the bizarre truth about Tanis, that there was no city here at the time of Ramesses the Great. Not a single pottery sherd has been collected from the time of Ramesses the

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Manfred Bietak was interested in the role played by the Nile in ancient times when he stumbled upon the strange truth about Piramesse. He was trying to trace the lost river beds and waterways of the Nile in order to map out what the Delta would have

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And then, other strange anomalies began turning up. Puzzling finds from other places suggesting Piramesse might lie elsewhere. Show me. He says it was dug up about 30 kilometres from here. He claimes it's from Piramesse. Well, cartouche is certainly

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Moving any single piece would have taken a workforce of hundreds.Using sleds to transport the pieces through the city. Monuments,like statues and obelisks,would have been taken down and transported whole. Temples and other bulidings, a single piece

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The modern day town of Qantir is a jumbled collection of ramshackle buildings typical of a delta town today. Judging by its central position on the scan. It is almost certainly sitting slap-bang on the top of Ramesses II s palace. According to accou

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But it had taken Pusch and Bietak years of excavation just to unearth the garrison. At this rate of digging ,it would take hundreds of years to prove if they had truly found the site of Piramesse. And so they turned, instead, to a new technology tha

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The clue to what the ancient Egyptians did to Piramess 3000 years ago lies hidden in the middle of an unassuming field in modern day Qantir. Here are the feet of one of the many colossal statues that Rammesses the great built at Piramess. The rest o

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But if Bietak and Pusch had indeed found Piramess at Qantir, what was it that Montet had discovered at Tanis. Once you've recognized Piramess is indeed at Qantir, you start wondering what on earth is Tanis thing. There are buildings there which real

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