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Qasr el-Banat

Faiyum Governorate, Egypt

Qasr el Banat is an archaeological site located between the archaeological sites of Theadelphia and Philoteris in Faiyum Governorate in Egypt, about 5 km south of Lake Qarun. It is the site of the ancient village of Euhemeria. All that remains of the site today is the two tholos baths, the remains of an ancient wall, fragments of several buildings and scattered bricks and pottery after large part of the land was reclaimed in the first few decades of the twentieth century as the desert retreated. The settlement was founded during the reign of Ptolemy I or Ptolemy II and was abandoned some time in the 4th century AD.

Archaeological site data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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