← Back to the map Well-preserved mudbrick ruins at the Karanis archaeological site

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Residential Quarter of Karanis

Vicus

VicusAegyptus · Kom Aushim, Fayum, EgyptBuilt 50 CE

About

Karanis's mudbrick houses survived so completely, some still roofed, that they preserve entire room layouts, wall niches, and storage bins intact. The two-story House of the Banker points to real wealth built up inside this farming village. University of Michigan excavators pulled thousands of papyri directly from trash heaps and floor fill inside these houses between 1924 and 1935. The desert climate preserved everyday Roman-Egyptian domestic life here better than almost any other site in the empire.

Sources

https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/karanis-collaboratory/um-excavations/

Nearby

Granary C123

74 m

North Temple of Karanis

174 m

South Temple of Karanis

183 m

Bath House of Karanis

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