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Buto
31.1964° N, 30.7447° E
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Buto (Ancient Greek: Βουτώ, Arabic: بوتو, Butu), Bouto, Butus (Ancient Greek: Βοῦτος, Boutos) or Butosus was a city that the Ancient Egyptians called Per-Wadjet. It was located 95 km east of Alexandria in the Nile Delta of Egypt. What in classical times the Greeks called Buto, stood about midway between the Taly (Bolbitine) and Thermuthiac (Sebennytic) branches of the Nile, a few kilometers north of the east-west Butic River and on the southern shore of the Butic Lake (Greek: Βουτικὴ λίμνη, Boutikē limnē). Today, it is called Tell El Fara'in ("Hill of the Pharaohs"), near the villages of Ibtu (or Abtu), Kom Butu, and the city of Desouk (Arabic: دسوق).
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Prehistoric prominence
before 3100 BCE
Second Dynasty palace
Second Dynasty
Ptolemaic period prominence
305–30 BCE
Egypt Exploration Society excavations
1964–1969
German Archaeological Institute work
since early 1980s
2022 temple hall discovery
2022
Buto-Maadi cultural phase
c. 4000–3500 BCE
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