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So he had never painstakingly dated at all. If he had, he would have discovered the bizarre truth about Tanis, that there was no city here at the time of Ramesses the Great.

Not a single pottery sherd has been collected from the time of Ramesses the Second or before, but everything is posted Ramesses the Second and their visit is a very important point.

And yet, the monuments, statues and buildings here are without doubt those of Piramesse built by Ramesses the Great. It was a bizarre paradox, how can a magnificent city turn up in a place where it could never have been built? And where on earth should it have been in the first place?

Bietak was intrigued. He felt compelled to solve the puzzle left by Montet and find the real site of Piramesse, and thanks to his map, he had the means of finding it. By using pottery to date the lost eastern channels of the Nile, one immediately stood out---the ancient Pelusiac branch, stretching over 180 kilometers in length. Along the course of this ancient branch, pottery had been discovered dating from the time or Ramesses the Great which meant that it had to be the active most eastern branch of the Nile at the time of Ramesses. So Piramesse must lie somewhere along this lost Pelusiac branch. At this point Bietak teamed up with German archeologist Edgar Pusch to find the city.

Here, we have Tanis, which we know is not Piramesse, and then over here, we have the Pelusiac Nile branch is running something like this and along it we do have evidence of settlement means all from this, the Second and his followers, but here, it Qantir, we have an incredible concentration of settlement means of Ramesses the Second.

There had been clues suggesting Qantir was the site of Piramesse going back to the time of Montet.

He says it was dug up about 30 kilometers from here, he claims it's from Piramesse.

This is Qantir, 30 kilometers south of Tanis. Could this be the site of the lost city of Piramesse? When Pusch first arrived, there was nothing to see at Qantir...