Coordinates: 30°17′20″N 31°21′38″E / 30.28889°N 31.36056°E / 30.28889; 31.36056 Leontopolis (Egyptian: Ney-ta-hut) is the Greek name for the modern area of Tell el Yehudiye or Tell el-Yahudiya.

It was an ancient city of Egypt in the 13th nome of Lower Egypt (the Heliopolite nome), on the Pelusiac branch of the Nile.

To be found is some earthwork enclosure of the late Middle Kingdom or Second Intermediate Period, containing temple and palace of Ramesses II. Also remains of temple and town of Onias and cemeteries of the Middle Kingdom and later.

[edit] References

• Richard Talbert, Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World, (ISBN 0-691-03169-X), p. 74.

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• Archaeologic survery