Karanis

Faiyum Governorate · Egypt

Karanis, Egypt
Photo: Roland Unger, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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The extensive ruins of a Greco-Roman farming town on the northern Faiyum, with two temples and mud-brick houses. Papyri and everyday objects recovered here illuminate provincial life under Roman rule.

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