Samannūd

Samanoud stands on the Damietta branch of the Nile in the central Delta. In ancient times it was known as Tjebnetjer, or Sebennytos to Greek writers, and served as the capital of a Lower Egyptian district. It was the home of Manetho, the Egyptian priest and historian who wrote a history of Egypt in Greek in the third century BCE. The later town grew over the remains of the ancient city amid the Delta's cultivated fields.