He was succeeded by his deputy John Tabinaman, who continued to be re-elected as leader until the election of December 2008, which James Tanis won.

Tanis was founded in the late Twentieth Dynasty, and became the northern capital of Egypt during the following Twenty-first Dynasty.

Many of the stones used to build the various temples at Tanis came from the old Ramesside town of Qantir ( ancient Pi-Ramesses / Per-Ramesses ), which caused many former generations of Egyptologists to believe that Tanis was, in fact, Per-Ramesses.

This triad was, however, identical to that of Thebes, leading many scholars to speak of Tanis as the " northern Thebes ".

This was the second sacred lake found at Tanis.

In the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark, Tanis was said to be the resting place of the Ark of the Covenant which was hidden in a secret chamber called the Well of Souls.

Tanis was inaccurately depicted as having been destroyed in a sand storm and buried until 1936 when it was discovered by a German expedition outside Cairo.

In fact, Tanis was the site of numerous archaeological digs beginning in the 19th century, involving Flinders Petrie and Auguste Mariette.

By the end of the Tanis dig he ran out of funding but, reluctant to leave the country in case this was renewed, he spent 1887 cruising the Nile taking photographs as a less subjective record than sketches.

Rohl finds confirmation of this scenario of parallel dynasties in the royal burial ground at Tanis where it appears that the tomb of Osorkon II of the 22nd Dynasty was built before that of Psusennes I of the 21st Dynasty.

Although Paul still played the violin on occasion, when he did “ even Zilla was silent as the lonely man who lost his way … spun out his dark soul in music .” Even though Babbitt and Paul abandoned their former goals and ideals, Babbitt still dreams of a “ fairy child .” She is an imaginary woman, full of life and gaiety, who does not see him as a stogy old businessman, but a “ gallant youth .” He imagines various women as his fairy child, including his secretary, a manicurist, his son ’ s girlfriend Eunice Littlefield, and finally Tanis Judique.

) The country was once again split into two parts with the priests in Thebes and the Pharaohs at Tanis.

Originally called Pa-ra-mes-su, Ramesses I was of non-royal birth, being born into a noble military family from the Nile delta region, perhaps near the former Hyksos capital of Avaris, or from Tanis.

There is some mystery as to the identity of this king of Egypt: some scholars have argued that So refers to the Egyptian city Sais ( as the New English Bible suggests ), and thereby refers to king Tefnakht of the 24th Dynasty ; however the principal city of Egypt at this time was Tanis, which suggests that there was an unnecessary correction of the text and Kenneth Kitchen is correct in identifying " So " with Osorkon IV of the 22nd Dynasty.

According to the Bible ( Numbers 13: 23 ) it was founded seven years before Zoan or Tanis, the most ancient town in Lower Egypt, which means that it existed from the first half of the third millennium B. C.

The ' House of Millions of Years of Shoshenq, Beloved of Amun ' was probably the forecourt and pylon of the Ptah temple, which, if the royal necropoleis at Tanis, Saïs, and Mendes are taken as models, could very well have contained a royal burial within it or the temenos.

In popular fiction, the Well's legends appeared in Raiders of the Lost Ark, though its location was changed from Jerusalem to Tanis, Egypt.

* Tanis ( the Egyptian capital in the Late Period ) was partially explored in the Delta

Bubastis was situated southwest of Tanis, upon the eastern side of the Pelusiac branch of the Nile.

When Ramesses XI died, the village of Deir El Medina was abandoned because the Royal Necropolis was shifted northward to Tanis.

Instead it is likely that the pharaohs worked to develop the Memphite cult in their new capital of Tanis, to the northeast.

During the Twenty-second Dynasty Tanis remained as Egypt's political capital ( though there were sometimes rival dynasties located elsewhere in Upper Egypt ).

He ruled Egypt around 872 BC to 837 BC from Tanis, the capital of this Dynasty.

On the matter of their origins, they were not Hurrians from northern Syria and Anatolia, they did not invade Egypt with chariots and horses and their capital city of Avaris was not to be located in the vicinity of Tanis.

** Tanis, twelve years of excavations in a forgotten capital of the Egyptian delta, Payot, Paris, ( 1942 )

* Tanis, Egypt – Capital during the 21st and 22nd Dynasties, in the Delta region.

Since Smendes buried Ramesses XI, he could legally assume the crown of Egypt and inaugurate the 21st Dynasty from his hometown at Tanis, even if he did not control Middle and Upper Egypt, which were now effectively in the hands of the High Priests of Amun at Thebes.

The de facto split between Ramesses XI and his 21st Dynasty successors with the High Priests of Amun at Thebes ( referred to in Ancient Egyptian as Wehem Mesut ) or ' Renaissance ' resulted in the unofficial political division of Egypt between Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt with the Tanite based kings ruling Lower Egypt from Tanis.

The Crown Prince Osorkon B was not outmaneuvered to the throne of Tanis by Shoshenq III because both men ruled over separate kingdoms with the 22nd Dynasty controlling Lower Egypt, and Takelot II / Osorkon B ruling over most of Upper Egypt from Herakleopolis Magna to Thebes, where they are monumentally attested.

Kitchen views Shoshenq II to be the High Priest of Amun at Thebes Shoshenq C, and a short-lived coregent of Osorkon I who predeceased his father, the well-respected German Egyptologist Jürgen von Beckerath in his seminal 1997 book, Chronologie des Pharaonischen Ägypten, maintains that Shoshenq II was rather an independent king of Tanis who ruled the 22nd Dynasty in his own right for c. 2 Years.

von Beckerath's hypothesis is supported by the fact that Shoshenq II employed a complete royal titulary along with a distinct prenomen Heqakheperre and his intact tomb at Tanis was filled with numerous treasures including jewelled pectorals and bracellets, an impressive falconheaded silver coffin and a gold face mask – items which indicate a genuine king of the 22nd Dynasty.

Tefnakht was not a member of the Tanite based 22nd Dynasty of Egypt since Tanis is located in the Eastern Delta whereas his local city of Sais was situated in the Western Delta closer to Libya.

This year is equivalent to Year 31 of Shoshenq III of the Tanis based 22nd Dynasty of Egypt ; however, since Shoshenq II only controlled Lower Egypt in Memphis and the Delta region, Pedubast and Shoshenq III were not political rivals and may even have established a relationship.

They inform him that the Nazis, in their quest for occult power, are searching for his old mentor, Abner Ravenwood, who is the leading expert on the ancient Egyptian city of Tanis and possesses the headpiece of an artifact called the Staff of Ra.

* Tanis Diena, an ancient Latvian sacred holiday

In 2009, the Egyptian Culture Ministry reported archaeologists had discovered the site of a sacred lake in a temple to the goddess Mut at the San al-Hagar archaeological site in ancient Tanis.

Although she does not specifically label the document as a gazetteer, Penelope Wilson ( PhD, Lecturer in the Department of Archaeology at Durham University ) describes an ancient Egyptian papyrus found at the site of Tanis, Egypt ( a city founded during the Twentieth dynasty of Egypt ) which provides the following for each administrative area of Egypt at the time:

After his death, Austrian Egyptologist Manfred Bietak discovered that although Montet had discovered Pi-Ramesses stonework at Tanis, the true location of the ancient city lay some 30 km to the south.

Tanis (; ; ; ) is a city in the north-eastern Nile delta of Egypt.

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However fragments of 4 granite Colossi of Ramses were found in Tanis ( northern Egypt ).

After his death, his successor Smendes I ruled from the city of Tanis, and the High Priests of Amun at Thebes ruling the south of the country in the period of the Twenty-first dynasty of Egypt.

Pinedjem strengthened his control over both Middle and Upper Egypt and asserted his kingdom's virtual independence from the Twenty-first Dynasty based at Tanis.

All the documents which mention Takelot II Si-Ese and his son, Osorkon B, originate from either Middle or Upper Egypt ( none from Lower Egypt ) and a royal tomb at Tanis which named a king Hedjkheperre Setepenre Takelot along with a Year 9 stela from Bubastis are now recognised as belonging exclusively to Takelot I.