Taken from: THE MONUMENTAL ARCHITECTURE AND ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN KENYA COAST by Thomas H. Wilson, Ph.D.

Ngomeni is located on the north side of an arm of land jutting toward the sea, which offers a protected, if shallow, harbor. The old site is supposed to be east of the present settlement, about where the Italian Aerospace Center is now built. Kirkman wrote that the old settlement was said to have been washed away by high tides or the flooding of the Tana River, although he reported the ruins of a house. In the 1975 Port Jesus Newsletter Sassoon reported that there was said to have been a small, narrow mosque and some other buildings in the area, again rumored to have fallen into the sea. We found an old well in the sand on the beach, but we were not able to find ceramics for a collection, although in a personal communication Sassoon wrote that the Port Jesus Museum has a magnificent celadon bowl from Ngomeni.

Taken from: Men and Monuments on the East African Coast by James S. Kirkman

….. the old site known today as Ngomeni. The old Ngomeni is said to have been built on a sand bank on the north flank of Sheshale Point, between the sea and the salt water lagoons , but was almost completely washed away. Heavy rains up - country had filled the lagoons with the overflow waters of the Tana; an exceptionally high tide and strong easterly winds blew the waters of the sea against the land, and the fresh waters and salt met among the houses of the town. The cause of this misfortune is said to have been the extravagance of the women who used to bathe in goats’ milk. ……..

All that remains of the old town are the ruins of a house on the headland near the present fishing village. The date of this remarkable event is uncertain but the Kitab al Zenuj, that mendacious document, relates that the people of Ozi came from Ngomeni. By Ozi could be meant Ungwana, which would put the inundation of Ngomeni sometime in the thirteenth century.