Buto

Buto (Greek:Βουτώ, Arabic:بوتو‎, Butu), Butus (Greek:Βοῦτος, Boutos), or Butosus, now Tell al-Fara'in (Pharaohs' Mound) near the city of Desouk (Arabic:دسوق‎), was an ancient city located 95 km east of Alexandria in the Nile Delta of Egypt. The city stood on the Sebennytic arm of the Nile, near its mouth, and on the southern shore of the Butic Lake (Greek:Βουτικὴ λίμνη, Boutikē limnē). It is the modern Kem Kasir.