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Tagsakoris
5 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
New Kingdom to Coptic (1500 BCE – 650 CE) · Egyptian / Greco-Roman
Northern limestone quarry harbour of Akoris 1–2 m under Nile silt below 40 m cliffs — slipway 60 m with rope grooves and quarry chapel.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
New Kingdom to Coptic (1500 BCE – 650 CE) · Egyptian / Greco-Roman
Northern limestone quarry harbour of Akoris 1–2 m under Nile silt below 40 m cliffs — slipway 60 m with rope grooves and quarry chapel.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Old Kingdom to Byzantine (2700 BCE – 700 CE) · Pharaonic / Roman Egyptian
Southern terrace Nile harbour of Akoris at Tihna — 50 m quay revetment and tomb forecourt quay.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Old Kingdom to Coptic (c.2500 BCE – 700 CE) · Egyptian / Ptolemaic / Roman
Nile cliff quarry town at Tihna — second harbour terrace slipway 2 m under talus 10 m above floodplain, limestone quay for Nile stone barges.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient village
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.
