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el-Lahun

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: R. Müller Wollermann
Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified Nov 08, 2023 04:55 PM — History
el-Lahun was a planned 'pyramid town' that supported a royal mortuary complex and other activities associated with the Pyramid of Senusret II, which was located less than a kilometer west of the settlement.

https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/736953

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    • Illahun (Arabic, AD 1900 - AD 1999)
    • Kahun (English, AD 1900 - AD 1999)
    • Lahun (English, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
    • اللاهون (el-Lahun: Arabic, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
    None

tomb, settlement, archaeological site

Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 75 D2 el-Lahun

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: el-Lahun


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R. Müller Wollermann, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'el-Lahun: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/736953> [accessed: 25 April 2024] 

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