Karanis

Archaeological site in the Egyptian depression of el-Faiyum

Karanis, located in what is now Kom Aushim, was an agricultural town in the Ptolemaic Kingdom, and Roman Egypt located in the northeast corner of the Faiyum Oasis. It was roughly 60 hectares in size and its peak population is estimated to be 4000 people, although it could have been as much as three times greater. Karanis was one of a number of towns in the Arsinoite nome established in the third century BC by Ptolemy II Philadelphus. The town largely stagnated in the late Ptolmaic period, until in the first century BC it expanded north when Augustus, having conquered Egypt and also recognizing the Faiyum's agricultural potential, sent workers to clean up the canals and restore the dikes that had fallen into decline, restoring productivity to the area. Karanis was continually occupied up until about the time of the seventh-century Sasanian conquest of Egypt, when is was gradually abandoned due to unclear causes.

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