Tell el-Balamun
Ancient city · Egypt
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 31.259, 31.571
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: Tell el-Balamun first known as Smabehdet, is an ancient city in Egypt dating from 2400 BC.
History
Tell el-Balamun first known as Smabehdet, is an ancient city in Egypt dating from 2400 BC. It was once a port city on an estuary of the Nile, but is now inland of the Mediterranean Sea. In ancient times it was known as Diospolis Inferior or Diospolis Kato. It has a complex of temples.