![]() But political fortunes shifted, and so did the river's waters-and in recent centuries the Tanis site had became a silted plain with some hill-like mounds thought to be of little interest. The city's advantageous location enabled it to become a wealthy commercial center long before the rise of Alexandria. ![]() The site, in the Nile Delta northeast of Cairo, was capital of the 21st and 22nd dynasties, during the reign of the Tanite kings in Egypt's Third Intermediate period. Ancient Egyptians called it Djanet, and the Old Testament refers to the site as Zoan. But the true tale of Tanis is also fit for the silver screen. In reality, the Ark was never hidden in Tanis, the sandstorm didn't happen, and the Nazis never battled Indiana Jones in the site's ruins. In the famous film the city was buried by a catastrophic ancient sandstorm and rediscovered by Nazis searching for the Ark of the Covenant. Many who know of Tanis at all remember the city as portrayed in the Indiana Jones movie Raiders of the Lost Ark. Yet for more than six decades the riches from its rulers' tombs have remained largely unknown. ![]() The treasures found in the "lost city" of Tanis rival those of King Tut's. ![]()
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