Athribis
Sign in to saveAthribis (; Greek: , from the original , ) was an ancient city in Lower Egypt. It is located in present-day Tell Atrib, just northeast of Benha on the hill of Kom Sidi Yusuf. The town lies around 40 km north of Cairo, on the eastern bank of the Damietta branch of the Nile. It was mainly occupied during the Ptolemaic, Roman, and Byzantine eras.
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- Background
- Early Bronze Age
- Middle Bronze Age
- Late Bronze Age
- 18th Dynasty
- 19th dynasty
- Iron Age
- Classical Age
- Ptolemaic period
- Middle Ages
- Excavations
- Excavation history
- Excavation findings
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Athribis (; Greek: , from the original , ) was an ancient city in Lower Egypt. It is located in present-day Tell Atrib, just northeast of Benha on the hill of Kom Sidi Yusuf. The town lies around 40 km north of Cairo, on the eastern bank of the Damietta branch of the Nile. It was mainly occupied during the Ptolemaic, Roman, and Byzantine eras.
== Background == Athribis was once the capital of the tenth Lower Egyptian nome.