Metelis (Kom el-Ahmer)
Ancient city · Egypt
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 31.162, 30.449
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: Metelis was a city in ancient Egypt.
History
Metelis was a city in ancient Egypt. Its archaeological site is located in the Beheira Governorate of the Western Nile Delta, about 44 km southeast of Alexandria, and 7 km west of El Mahmoudiyah. It belonged to the Metelite nome, of which it was the capital.