Tanis, Egypt

Egypt

Tanis, Egypt draws 80 connections with 642 other places across 17 topics, spanning ancient history, film, and archaeology. Raiders of the Lost Ark cast it as a buried lost city swallowed by a sandstorm, threading it through film connections to Los Angeles and California. Auguste Mariette led the first large-scale excavations there in the 1860s, and two pink granite sphinxes unearthed in 1825 now sit in the Musée du Louvre, grounding a direct link to Paris.

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