Introduction: Tanis

Tanis, the legendary city of Tanis one of the most unique and fascinating sights in all of Egypt with a special history once lost for many centuries join us in this video as we explore the megalithic ruins and captivating history of this remarkable ancient city the ancient world tennis is one of the most intriguing cities in dynastic Egyptian history with an amazing story to tell the beautiful remains of this ruined yet once mighty city are strewn about in a dizzying display of damaged artefacts destroyed megalithic monuments and broken masterpieces it is truly one of the most spectacular exhibits of Egyptian stone works and is home to some of the most amazing archaeological discoveries Tanis.

Table of Contents: Tanis

1. Introduction
   2. Mythical Origins: Unearthing the Legends of Tanis
   3. Rediscovery and Excavations: The Quest for Tanis
   4. Architectural Marvels: Exploring the Ruins of Tanis
   5. Art and Artifacts: Tracing Tanis’ Cultural Legacy
   6. Tanis in Ancient Texts: Literary References and Significance
   7. Decline and Abandonment: Unraveling the Mysteries of Tanis’ Fall
   8. Modern-Day Exploration: Preserving and Understanding Tanis
   9. Conclusion
   10. FAQ

2.Mythical Origins: Unearthing the Legends of Tanis

ever made but because of strange luck and bad timing of these findings the world never fully learned about tennis and today tourists rarely visit it is a great place that’s worth visiting though while you’re in egypt and we definitely recommend you to go see it however getting there can be quite a long trip especially if you choose to take public transport like we did [Music] tennis sits in the northeastern now delta region about a three and a half hour drive from cairo most people go with guided tours .

decided to just wing it and make a full day adventure of hopping on a bunch of public minibuses full of local people [Music] we really enjoy taking local transportation where we get to meet all kinds of interesting people and connect with the local culture it can be more difficult though as you have to make many different connections in order to get far distances on the way we passed through a lot of desert rich agricultural farmlands and unfortunately a lot of trash eventually after some confusion trying to explain where we were going to some

3.Rediscovery and Excavations: The Quest for Tanis

taxi drivers who didn’t speak any english and probably rarely see tourists we ended up jumping into a local tuk-tuk for the final stretch of the journey it’s always exciting to take the more adventurous ways of traveling and we’re always down for a good old tuk-tuk drag after around a four hour journey in a bunch of different vehicles we finally arrived at the site it seemed like the workers hadn’t seen any tourists in a while and they were very happy to have us around after we checked in one of the workers.

gave us a short tour of some of the stone artifacts on display in front of the main building there are granite sarcophagi and statues a busted fragment of a foot that once belonged to a large figure made of quartzite a bunch of small chunks that used to be beautiful statues and blocks adorned with hieroglyphics everything is either heavily damaged or completely broken to pieces it’s always a bit sad to see masterfully crafted stone statues like this one broken in half and completely left in ruins

4.Architectural Marvels: Exploring the Ruins of Tanis

everywhere in egypt just imagine how exquisite these would have looked in their original form next we got to meet the head archaeologist who’s been leading the work here since 2014 it was a really cool experience and was actually one of only two times that we got to speak with an archaeologist during our entire six weeks traveling all over the country .

It’s so peaceful until the tranquillity is broken by…pirates?! Nope! They’re eager and enterprising salesmen who artfully tie up to the surging river boats to display, model, and haggle, selling their souvenirs the hard way. Whether you buy anything or not, you can enjoy their entertaining show afternoons on both the port and starboard sides.
As the sun gets low in the sky, we enter the magic hour. Scenes crescendo in beauty as they glide gracefully by either side of the boat. We pass patient fishermen, grazing cattle, farmers at work… Children play, villagers do their chores, and minarets call all to prayer as the sun sets.

5.Art and Artifacts: Tracing Tanis’ Cultural Legacy

opportunity to ask an archaeologist face to face about his thoughts on some controversial theories about the origins of civilization
and the potential that the mainstream academic perspective of history might be wrong we asked him what he thinks about the theory that there may have once existed an advanced civilization that lived thousands of years before what scholars believe was the birth of civilization around 5000 years ago and whether or not we might find evidence that supports this theory here at tennis during our years of studying the ancient world this topic has been a huge interest of ours and we’ve been looking for evidence.

this potential lost chapter of pre-history while we’ve traveled to ancient sites worldwide it is an extremely plausible theory that there indeed could have been a high civilization in ancient times long before recorded history and there is much supporting evidence of this found all around the world but he immediately made it very clear that he is not at all interested in entertaining this idea he asked what evidence we’ve seen to support this theory so we discussed several different sites including the
great sphinx at giza

6.Tanis in Ancient Texts: Literary References and Significance

a River Nile cruise is not for the faint-hearted it will Delight you excite you enthrall you but it will also shock you move you and sadden you we’re going to show you why you will not Escape any of these emotions and why you will remember this experience for the rest of your life this is not click bait when I say keep watching we’ve got a lot to talk about.

we’ll leave a link in the top also too
we did a ship tour video as well so we’ll we’ll leave a link on that because again if you just want to have a look around the ship it’s there in detail this is a review of uni world’s SS Sphinx on the Nile yeah yeah rather than the Nile itself because we’ve already done that anyway let’s get on with it shall we and let’s have a just a quick Montage of what’s to come yeah.

7.Decline and Abandonment: Unraveling the Mysteries of Tanis’ Fall

thorough geological research was done in the 1990s by the geologist robert shock and the late john anthony west and they concluded that the geological weathering on the body of the sphinx and around its enclosure must be water induced erosion caused by large quantities of rainfall this evidence strongly suggests that the sphinx was carved during a completely different geological era around 12 000 years ago when the sahara wasn’t even a desert and this region received huge amounts of rain.

we made a video all about this linked in the description below so you can go back and check it out there are so many unanswered questions about the true origins of the sphinx but the archaeologist was not willing at all to entertain the possibility that it could have been built by anyone else but the fourth dynasty egyptians around four and a half thousand years ago our conversation actually got a little bit intense at one point of course with all good laugh and he jokingly walked away from us in the middle of our talk.

8.Modern-Day Exploration: Preserving and Understanding Tanis

that’s when i asked him so what do you think of things like the water erosion on the sphinx i mean you are trying to tell me that this thing is much earlier than yeah we say yeah good boys [Music] we’re just open to all possibilities and just interested in it all here to learn america it was quite an eye-opening experience to get this response from him and it was very telling about the preconceived prejudices of mainstream academia there’s clearly no room for theories about lost civilizations.

entirely overturn our currently established model of history we had a good laugh about it though and still managed to have a great talk and we did learn a lot of pretty cool stuff from him but he said we would definitely not find any evidence of a lost civilization here at tennis and then he clarified a bunch of things that we had questions about for example we had heard a theory that this city could predate the dynastic egyptians by thousands of years .

9.Conclusion:Tanis

TANIS like on the famous sphinx in the louvre for example which was reclaimed by several different dynasties who carved their names over those of the earlier kings as well as on the hexo sphinxes in the cairo museum the list goes on and on in petrie’s book he discusses this in great detail and shows the plethora of examples of brutal defacement and outright theft performed by later kings on the artifacts of their forefathers so dating objects from their.

inscriptions can be a problematic method because they might only tell us the most recent date that the last person carved their name on them the origins of many of the stones here at tanis must come from long before the time of ramses and we wonder just how far back does the story go [Music] we’re especially curious about the megalithic stones because there are so many epic ones in egypt that really stand out and get us thinking about who made them in particular tanis holds the remains of one of the largest megaliths ever made and we question whether the official story of who made it is true

10.FAQ:Tanis