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Crocodilopolis
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🏛️ Ancient ruins

Crocodilopolis

Ancient city · Egypt

Abandoned
unknown
Founded
—
Population
—
Coordinates
25.552, 32.439
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Why it was abandoned

🏛️ Ancient ruins

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History

Sumenu or Smenu was an ancient Egyptian town located in Upper Egypt. It housed the most prominent early-Middle Kingdom sanctuary of the crocodile-god Sobek.

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