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Partially excavated places tagged “akoris” in Egypt · Mysteria

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Partially excavated places tagged “akoris” in Egypt

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🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city

Akoris — Northern Quarry Valley Harbour at Tihna North

Ptolemaic to Coptic (300 BCE – 500 CE) · Graeco-Roman Egyptian

Northern quarry valley of Akoris — slipway and wadi canal buried 2–4 m for 3-ton block export north.

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🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient village

Akoris (Tihna el-Gabal) – Rock-cut Tombs & Mines

Old Kingdom to Roman · Egyptian

Cliff sanctuary with rock-cut Hathor/Nemesis chapel, pink limestone quarries supplying Amarna, and 12th Dyn rock-tombs of nomarch Wahka with nautical graffiti. Miners' camp and Roman road station.