Pithom
Ancient city · Egypt
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- 1277 BC
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 30.552, 32.099
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: древнеегипетский город, упомянутый в Библии
History
Pithom was an ancient city of Egypt. References in the Hebrew Bible and ancient Greek and Roman sources exist for this city, but its exact location remains somewhat uncertain. Some scholars identified it as the later archaeological site of Tell el-Maskhuta. Others identified it as the earlier archaeological site of Tell El Retabeh.