"Heliopolis (I͗wnw or Iunu Ancient Egyptian: I͗wnw “the Pillars” > Coptic: ⲱⲛ; Greek: Ήλιούπολις Hēlioúpοlis “City of the Sun”) was a major city of ancient Egypt. ...
It was the capital of the 13th or Heliopolite Nome of Lower Egypt and a major religious centre. It is now located in Ayn Shams, a northeastern suburb of Cairo.
Heliopolis was one of the oldest cities of ancient Egypt, occupied since the Predynastic Period. It greatly expanded under the Old and Middle Kingdoms but is today mostly destroyed, its temples and other buildings having been scavenged for the construction of medieval Cairo. Most information about the ancient city comes from surviving records." - (en.wikipedia.org 22.09.2020)
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- Longitude31.288888931274
