heluan

Updated: May 14, 2025

Thus they bring many of them back prisoners, and sell them in the land of Egypt and in the surrounding countries. And these are the black slaves, the sons of Ham. From Assuan it is a distance of twelve days to Heluan where there are about 300 Jews.

of Tudela Benjamin - The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela

Stanley Lane Poole, in The Story of Cairo, p. 61, tells us of its edifices, and adds: "It is curious to consider how nearly this modern health-resort became the capital of Egypt." Heluan is situated on the right bank of the Nile.

of Tudela Benjamin - The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela

One would have thought that the caravans proceeding to the interior of Africa through the Sahara Desert would have started from the left bank of the Nile; but we must remember that ancient Memphis, which stood on the left bank and faced Heluan, had been abandoned long before Benjamin's time.

of Tudela Benjamin - The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela