Zoan
Ancient city · Ancient Egypt
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- -7.122, -34.882
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Based on the object's type in Wikidata.
History
According to the Hebrew Bible, Zoan was a city of Egypt in the eastern Nile Delta. Book of Numbers 13:22 says that it was built seven years after Hebron was built. Psalm 78:12,43 identifies the "field of Zoan" as the location where Moses performed miracles before a biblical Pharaoh to persuade him to release the Israelites from his service. The city is also mentioned in Book of Isaiah 19:11, 13, Isaiah 30:4 and Book of Ezekiel 30:14.