Pelusium, ruins of the citadel
The citadel is located on the main hill. This photo provides a good view over the ruins inside the citadel while I was standing on the remains of its wall.
Pelusium was the easternmost major city of Lower Egypt, situated upon the easternmost bank of the Nile.
It was, however, as a border-fortress on the frontier, as the key of Egypt as regarded Syria and the sea, and as a place of great strength, that Pelusium was most remarkable. From its position it was directly exposed to attack by the invaders of Egypt; several important battles were fought under its walls, and it was often besieged and taken.
Egyptians, Assyrians, Persians, Alexander the Great, Romans had fought or controlled it until in 1117, Baldwin I of Jerusalem razed the city to the ground...and that is what you see today.
The khalifs who ruled Pelusium following the Crusades, however, generally neglected the harbours, and from that period Pelusium, which had long been on the decline, almost disappeared from history.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelusium
Pelusium, ruins of the citadel
The citadel is located on the main hill. This photo provides a good view over the ruins inside the citadel while I was standing on the remains of its wall.
Pelusium was the easternmost major city of Lower Egypt, situated upon the easternmost bank of the Nile.
It was, however, as a border-fortress on the frontier, as the key of Egypt as regarded Syria and the sea, and as a place of great strength, that Pelusium was most remarkable. From its position it was directly exposed to attack by the invaders of Egypt; several important battles were fought under its walls, and it was often besieged and taken.
Egyptians, Assyrians, Persians, Alexander the Great, Romans had fought or controlled it until in 1117, Baldwin I of Jerusalem razed the city to the ground...and that is what you see today.
The khalifs who ruled Pelusium following the Crusades, however, generally neglected the harbours, and from that period Pelusium, which had long been on the decline, almost disappeared from history.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelusium