The city of Tanis was NOT swallowed up by the desert as Indiana Jones would have you believe. In fact, it was inhabited for a long time and abandoned when the Tanitic branch of the Nile silted up.
The city of Tanis was NOT swallowed up by the desert as Indiana Jones would have you believe. In fact, it was inhabited for a long time and abandoned when the Tanitic branch of the Nile silted up.