Buto - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Buto - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Buto (, , Butu),Stephanus of Byzantium. Bouto, Butus (, Boutos)Herodotus ii. 59, 63, 155. or Butosus was a city that the Ancient Egyptians called Per-Wadjet. It was located 95 km east of Alexandria in the Nile Delta of Egypt. What in classical times the Greeks called Buto, stood about midway between the Taly (Bolbitine) and Thermuthiac (Sebennytic) branches of the Nile, a few kilometers north of the east-west Butic River and on the southern shore of the Butic Lake (, Boutikē limnē).Strabo xvii. p. 802. Read more on Wikipedia
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