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Egypt > Saqqara & Memphis (10 files)

This gallery contains pictures of the two main sites usually visited together on a day trip south of Cairo - Saqqara with the famous Step Pyramid, a huge necropolis with many tombs and other pyramids and Memphis, the ancient capital of Egypt now will an open air museum with the alabaster sphinx and the huge partial statue of Ramasses 11.
Saqqara Persian Shaft eg951159jhp Egypt Saqqara Persian shaft tomb Padiaset colourful painted hieroglyphics texts stars pyramid funerary spells one of many tombs around the Pyramid of Unas near the Step Pyramid. The so-called Persian Shaft was for officials of the Pharaoh, possibly Ahmose 11 c530BC, 26th Dynasty, from the First Persian period, some 2000 years after the Step Pyramid was built. Entered by a wrought iron spiral staircase down a vertical shaft of some 20-25mm depth, three tombs are entered by small horizontal shafts. One tomb that of Psamtik, a royal chief physician still has an enormous carved anthropoid sarcophagus which is empty-the lower half shaped to receive a coffin, the lid, a monolith weighing many tons is perched above it on stone built columns-the custodian suggested I climb on it to photograph the ceilings of beautifully carved hieroglyphic text from the Book of the Dead. For the purist the flash had a UV filter to minimise any unlikely damaging effect on any coloured paintings [Sanders: technical bulletin 16 1995-NPG]. Debate about stone sarcophagus made of, as larger than any of existing shafts-from memory did not feel like granite. The carving skills though were brilliant and the arched tombs covered with text awesome. In the tomb of Pediese, son of Psamtik has coloured ceilings with stars and some painted hieroglyphic text. Access I understand is now limited and is mostly closed. Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Saqqara, Saqqarah, Pyramid, Unas, Unis, south, necropolis, Persian, period, Shaft, tombs, Psamtik, Psamtek, Psametik, chief, physician, Zannehib, Djenhebu, Tjanhebu, admiral, Pediese, Paydees, Padiaset, son, below, ground, deep, spiral, staircase, subterranean, underground, hieroglyphs, hieroglyphics, texts, Book, Dead, funerary, spells, mortuary, formulas, walls, carvings, painted, coloured, reliefs, stars, ceiling, curved, arched, sarcophagus, shaped, base, stone, monolith, lid, granite, carved, coffin, form, November, 1995, 645, transparency, film, Fuji, RDP2, 100asa, colour, scanned, scan, Bronica, ETRSi, medium, wide angle, 40mm f4, flash, Metz, 45CL-4, ultra-violet, filter, upright
Saqqara Persian Shaft eg951158jhp Egypt Saqqara Persian shaft burial tomb Psamtek wall curved hieroglyphics texts pyramid funerary spells one of many tombs around the Pyramid of Unas near the Step Pyramid. The so-called Persian Shaft was for officials of the Pharaoh, possibly Ahmose 11 c530BC, 26th Dynasty, from the First Persian period, some 2000 years after the Step Pyramid was built. Entered by a wrought iron spiral staircase down a vertical shaft of some 20-25mm depth, three tombs are entered by small horizontal shafts. One tomb that of Psamtik, a royal chief physician still has an enormous carved anthropoid sarcophagus which is empty-the lower half shaped to receive a coffin, the lid, a monolith weighing many tons is perched above it on stone built columns-the custodian suggested I climb on it to photograph the ceilings of beautifully carved hieroglyphic text from the Book of the Dead. For the purist the flash had a UV filter to minimise any unlikely damaging effect on any coloured paintings [Sanders: technical bulletin 16 1995-NPG]. Debate about stone sarcophagus made of, as larger than any of existing shafts-from memory did not feel like granite. The carving skills though were brilliant and the arched tombs covered with text awesome. In the tomb of Pediese, son of Psamtik has coloured ceilings with stars and some painted hieroglyphic text. Access I understand is now limited and is mostly closed. Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Saqqara, Saqqarah, Pyramid, Unas, Unis, south, necropolis, Persian, period, Amhose 11, Shaft, tombs, Psamtik, Psamtek, Psametik, chief, physician, Zannehib, Djenhebu, Tjanhebu, admiral, Pediese, Paydees, Padiaset, son, below, ground, deep, spiral, staircase, subterranean, underground, hieroglyphs, hieroglyphics, texts, Book, Dead, funerary, spells, mortuary, formulas, walls, carvings, painted, coloured, reliefs, stars, ceiling, curved, arched, sarcophagus, shaped, base, stone, monolith, lid, granite, carved, coffin, form, November, 1995, 645, transparency, film, Fuji, RDP2, 100asa, colour, scanned, scan, Bronica, ETRSi, medium, wide angle, 40mm f4, flash, Metz, 45CL-4, ultra-violet, filter
Saqqara Persian Shaft eg951157jhp Egypt Saqqarah Persian Psamtik shaft tomb sarcophagus anthropoid carved stone base one of many tombs around the Pyramid of Unas near the Step Pyramid. The so-called Persian Shaft was for officials of the Pharaoh, possibly Ahmose 11 c530BC, 26th Dynasty, from the First Persian period, some 2000 years after the Step Pyramid was built. Entered by a wrought iron spiral staircase down a vertical shaft of some 20-25mm depth, three tombs are entered by small horizontal shafts. One tomb that of Psamtik, a royal chief physician still has an enormous carved anthropoid sarcophagus which is empty-the lower half shaped to receive a coffin, the lid, a monolith weighing many tons is perched above it on stone built columns-the custodian suggested I climb on it to photograph the ceilings of beautifully carved hieroglyphic text from the Book of the Dead. For the purist the flash had a UV filter to minimise any unlikely damaging effect on any coloured paintings [Sanders: technical bulletin 16 1995-NPG]. Debate about stone sarcophagus made of, as larger than any of existing shafts-from memory did not feel like granite. The carving skills though were brilliant and the arched tombs covered with text awesome. In the tomb of Pediese, son of Psamtik has coloured ceilings with stars and some painted hieroglyphic text. Access I understand is now limited and is mostly closed. Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Saqqara, Saqqarah, Pyramid, Unas, Unis, south, necropolis, Persian, period, Shaft, Ahmose, tombs, Psamtik, Psamtek, Psametik, chief, physician, Zannehib, Djenhebu, Tjanhebu, admiral, Pediese, Paydees, Padiaset, son, below, ground, deep, spiral, staircase, subterranean, underground, hieroglyphs, hieroglyphics, texts, Book, Dead, funerary, spells, mortuary, formulas, walls, carvings, painted, coloured, reliefs, stars, ceiling, curved, arched, sarcophagus, anthropoid, shaped, base, stone, monolith, lid, granite, carved, coffin, form, November, 1995, 645, transparency, film, Fuji, RDP2, 100asa, colour, scanned, scan, Bronica, ETRSi, medium, wide angle, 40mm f4, flash, Metz, 45CL-4, ultra-violet, filter
Saqqara Persian Shaft eg951156jhp Egypt Saqqara Persian period shaft tomb Paydees arched ceiling hieroglyphics stars coloured texts pyramid funerary spells one of many tombs around the Pyramid of Unas near the Step Pyramid. The so-called Persian Shaft was for officials of the Pharaoh, possibly Ahmose 11 c530BC, 26th Dynasty, from the First Persian period, some 2000 years after the Step Pyramid was built. Entered by a wrought iron spiral staircase down a vertical shaft of some 20-25mm depth, three tombs are entered by small horizontal shafts. One tomb that of Psamtik, a royal chief physician still has an enormous carved anthropoid sarcophagus which is empty-the lower half shaped to receive a coffin, the lid, a monolith weighing many tons is perched above it on stone built columns-the custodian suggested I climb on it to photograph the ceilings of beautifully carved hieroglyphic text from the Book of the Dead. For the purist the flash had a UV filter to minimise any unlikely damaging effect on any coloured paintings [Sanders: technical bulletin 16 1995-NPG]. Debate about stone sarcophagus made of, as larger than any of existing shafts-from memory did not feel like granite. The carving skills though were brilliant and the arched tombs covered with text awesome. In the tomb of Pediese, son of Psamtik has coloured ceilings with stars and some painted hieroglyphic text. Access I understand is now limited and is mostly closed. Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Saqqara, Saqqarah, Pyramid, Unas, Unis, south, necropolis, Persian, period, Shaft, tombs, Psamtik, Psamtek, Psametik, chief, physician, Zannehib, Djenhebu, Tjanhebu, admiral, Pediese, Paydees, Padiaset, son, below, ground, deep, spiral, staircase, subterranean, underground, hieroglyphs, hieroglyphics, texts, Book, Dead, funerary, spells, mortuary, formulas, walls, carvings, painted, coloured, reliefs, stars, ceiling, curved, arched, sarcophagus, shaped, base, stone, monolith, lid, granite, carved, coffin, form, November, 1995, 645, transparency, film, Fuji, RDP2, 100asa, colour, scanned, scan, Bronica, ETRSi, medium, wide angle, 40mm f4, flash, Metz, 45CL-4, ultra-violet, filter
Saqqara Persian Shaft eg951155jhp Egypt Saqqara Pediese painted ceiling stars hieroglyphs texts pyramid funerary spells one of many tombs around the Pyramid of Unas near the Step Pyramid. The so-called Persian Shaft was for officials of the Pharaoh, possibly Ahmose 11 c530BC, 26th Dynasty, from the First Persian period, some 2000 years after the Step Pyramid was built. Entered by a wrought iron spiral staircase down a vertical shaft of some 20-25mm depth, three tombs are entered by small horizontal shafts. One tomb that of Psamtik, a royal chief physician still has an enormous carved anthropoid sarcophagus which is empty-the lower half shaped to receive a coffin, the lid, a monolith weighing many tons is perched above it on stone built columns-the custodian suggested I climb on it to photograph the ceilings of beautifully carved hieroglyphic text from the Book of the Dead. For the purist the flash had a UV filter to minimise any unlikely damaging effect on any coloured paintings [Sanders: technical bulletin 16 1995-NPG]. Debate about stone sarcophagus made of, as larger than any of existing shafts-from memory did not feel like granite. The carving skills though were brilliant and the arched tombs covered with text awesome. In the tomb of Pediese, son of Psamtik has coloured ceilings with stars and some painted hieroglyphic text. Access I understand is now limited and is mostly closed. Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Saqqara, Saqqarah, Pyramid, Unas, Unis, south, necropolis, Persian, period, Shaft, tombs, Psamtik, Psamtek, Psametik, chief, physician, Zannehib, Djenhebu, Tjanhebu, admiral, Pediese, Paydees, Padiaset, son, below, ground, deep, spiral, staircase, subterranean, underground, hieroglyphs, hieroglyphics, texts, Book, Dead, funerary, spells, mortuary, formulas, walls, carvings, painted, coloured, reliefs, stars, ceiling, curved, arched, sarcophagus, shaped, base, stone, monolith, lid, granite, carved, coffin, form, November, 1995, 645, transparency, film, Fuji, RDP2, 100asa, colour, scanned, scan, Bronica, ETRSi, medium, wide angle, 40mm f4, flash, Metz, 45CL-4, ultra-violet, filter
Saqqara Persian Shaft eg951154jhp Egypt Saqqarah Persian shaft tomb Psamtik hieroglyphics texts carvings Book Dead funerary spells one of many tombs around the Pyramid of Unas near the Step Pyramid. The so-called Persian Shaft was for officials of the Pharaoh, possibly Ahmose 11 c530BC, 26th Dynasty, from the First Persian period, some 2000 years after the Step Pyramid was built. Entered by a wrought iron spiral staircase down a vertical shaft of some 20-25mm depth, three tombs are entered by small horizontal shafts. One tomb that of Psamtik, a royal chief physician still has an enormous carved anthropoid sarcophagus which is empty-the lower half shaped to receive a coffin, the lid, a monolith weighing many tons is perched above it on stone built columns-the custodian suggested I climb on it to photograph the ceilings of beautifully carved hieroglyphic text from the Book of the Dead. For the purist the flash had a UV filter to minimise any unlikely damaging effect on any coloured paintings [Sanders: technical bulletin 16 1995-NPG]. Debate about stone sarcophagus made of, as larger than any of existing shafts-from memory did not feel like granite. The carving skills though were brilliant and the arched tombs covered with text awesome. In the tomb of Pediese, son of Psamtik has coloured ceilings with stars and some painted hieroglyphic text. Access I understand is now limited and is mostly closed. Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Saqqara, Saqqarah, Pyramid, Unas, Unis, south, necropolis, Persian, period, Shaft, tombs, Psamtik, Psamtek, Psametik, chief, physician, Zannehib, Djenhebu, Tjanhebu, admiral, Pediese, Paydees, Padiaset, son, below, ground, deep, spiral, staircase, subterranean, underground, hieroglyphs, hieroglyphics, texts, Book, Dead, funerary, spells, mortuary, formulas, walls, carvings, painted, coloured, reliefs, stars, ceiling, curved, arched, sarcophagus, shaped, base, stone, monolith, lid, granite, carved, coffin, form, November, 1995, 645, transparency, film, Fuji, RDP2, 100asa, colour, scanned, scan, Bronica, ETRSi, medium, wide angle, 40mm f4, flash, Metz, 45CL-4, ultra-violet, filter
Saqqara Persian Shaft eg951153jhp Egyptian Saqqara Psamtek tomb wall carvings hieroglyphs texts pyramid funerary spells one of many tombs around the Pyramid of Unas near the Step Pyramid. The so-called Persian Shaft was for officials of the Pharaoh, possibly Ahmose 11 c530BC, 26th Dynasty, from the First Persian period, some 2000 years after the Step Pyramid was built. Entered by a wrought iron spiral staircase down a vertical shaft of some 20-25mm depth, three tombs are entered by small horizontal shafts. One tomb that of Psamtik, a royal chief physician still has an enormous carved anthropoid sarcophagus which is empty-the lower half shaped to receive a coffin, the lid, a monolith weighing many tons is perched above it on stone built columns-the custodian suggested I climb on it to photograph the ceilings of beautifully carved hieroglyphic text from the Book of the Dead. For the purist the flash had a UV filter to minimise any unlikely damaging effect on any coloured paintings [Sanders: technical bulletin 16 1995-NPG]. Debate about stone sarcophagus made of, as larger than any of existing shafts-from memory did not feel like granite. The carving skills though were brilliant and the arched tombs covered with text awesome. In the tomb of Pediese, son of Psamtik has coloured ceilings with stars and some painted hieroglyphic text. Access I understand is now limited and is mostly closed. Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Saqqara, Saqqarah, Pyramid, Unas, Unis, south, necropolis, Persian, period, Shaft, tombs, Psamtik, Psamtek, Psametik, chief, physician, Zannehib, Djenhebu, Tjanhebu, admiral, Pediese, Paydees, Padiaset, son, below, ground, deep, spiral, staircase, subterranean, underground, hieroglyphs, hieroglyphics, texts, Book, Dead, funerary, spells, mortuary, formulas, walls, carvings, painted, coloured, reliefs, stars, ceiling, curved, arched, sarcophagus, shaped, base, stone, monolith, lid, granite, carved, coffin, form, November, 1995, 645, transparency, film, Fuji, RDP2, 100asa, colour, scanned, scan, Bronica, ETRSi, medium, wide angle, 40mm f4, flash, Metz, 45CL-4, ultra-violet, filter
Saqqara Persian Shaft eg951152jhp Egypt Saqqara Persian period shaft en wall tomb Psametik hieroglyphics texts pyramid funerary spells one of many tombs around the Pyramid of Unas near the Step Pyramid. The so-called Persian Shaft was for officials of the Pharaoh, possibly Ahmose 11 c530BC, 26th Dynasty, from the First Persian period, some 2000 years after the Step Pyramid was built. Entered by a wrought iron spiral staircase down a vertical shaft of some 20-25mm depth, three tombs are entered by small horizontal shafts. One tomb that of Psamtik, a royal chief physician still has an enormous carved anthropoid sarcophagus which is empty-the lower half shaped to receive a coffin, the lid, a monolith weighing many tons is perched above it on stone built columns-the custodian suggested I climb on it to photograph the ceilings of beautifully carved hieroglyphic text from the Book of the Dead. For the purist the flash had a UV filter to minimise any unlikely damaging effect on any coloured paintings [Sanders: technical bulletin 16 1995-NPG]. Debate about stone sarcophagus made of, as larger than any of existing shafts-from memory did not feel like granite. The carving skills though were brilliant and the arched tombs covered with text awesome. In the tomb of Pediese, son of Psamtik has coloured ceilings with stars and some painted hieroglyphic text. Access I understand is now limited and is mostly closed. Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Saqqara, Saqqarah, Pyramid, Unas, Unis, south, necropolis, Persian, period, Shaft, tombs, Psamtik, Psamtek, Psametik, chief, physician, Zannehib, Djenhebu, Tjanhebu, admiral, Pediese, Paydees, Padiaset, son, below, ground, deep, spiral, staircase, subterranean, underground, hieroglyphs, hieroglyphics, texts, Book, Dead, funerary, spells, mortuary, formulas, walls, carvings, painted, coloured, reliefs, stars, ceiling, curved, arched, sarcophagus, shaped, base, stone, monolith, lid, granite, carved, coffin, form, November, 1995, 645, transparency, film, Fuji, RDP2, 100asa, colour, scanned, scan, Bronica, ETRSi, medium, wide angle, 40mm f4, flash, Metz, 45CL-4, ultra-violet, filter
Saqqara Persian Shaft eg951151jhp Egypt Saqqara Persian shaft tomb Psamtik hieroglyphics buriel texts Book Dead one of many tombs around the Pyramid of Unas near the Step Pyramid. The so-called Persian Shaft was for officials of the Pharaoh, possibly Ahmose 11 c530BC, 26th Dynasty, from the First Persian period, some 2000 years after the Step Pyramid was built. Entered by a wrought iron spiral staircase down a vertical shaft of some 20-25mm depth, three tombs are entered by small horizontal shafts. One tomb that of Psamtik, a royal chief physician still has an enormous carved anthropoid sarcophagus which is empty-the lower half shaped to receive a coffin, the lid, a monolith weighing many tons is perched above it on stone built columns-the custodian suggested I climb on it to photograph the ceilings of beautifully carved hieroglyphic text from the Book of the Dead. For the purist the flash had a UV filter to minimise any unlikely damaging effect on any coloured paintings [Sanders: technical bulletin 16 1995-NPG]. Debate about stone sarcophagus made of, as larger than any of existing shafts-from memory did not feel like granite. The carving skills though were brilliant and the arched tombs covered with text awesome. In the tomb of Pediese, son of Psamtik has coloured ceilings with stars and some painted hieroglyphic text. Access I understand is now limited and is mostly closed. Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Saqqara, Saqqarah, Pyramid, Unas, Unis, south, necropolis, Persian, period, Shaft, tombs, Psamtik, Psametik, chief, physician, Zannehib, Djenhebu, admiral, Pediese, Paydees, son, below, ground, deep, spiral, staircase, subterranean, underground, hieroglyphs, hieroglyphics, texts, Book, Dead, funerary, spells, mortuary, formulas, walls, carvings, painted, coloured, reliefs, stars, ceiling, curved, arched, sarcophagus, shaped, base, stone, monolith, lid, granite, carved, coffin, form, November, 1995, 645, transparency, film, Fuji, RDP2, 100asa, colour, scanned, scan, Bronica, ETRSi, medium, wide angle, 40mm f4, flash, Metz, 45CL-4, ultra-violet, filter
Saqqara Persian Shaft eg9511510jhp Egyptian Saqqara Persian period shaft tomb Pediese end wall passageway hieroglyphics texts pyramid funerary spells one of many tombs around the Pyramid of Unas near the Step Pyramid. The so-called Persian Shaft was for officials of the Pharaoh, possibly Ahmose 11 c530BC, 26th Dynasty, from the First Persian period, some 2000 years after the Step Pyramid was built. Entered by a wrought iron spiral staircase down a vertical shaft of some 20-25mm depth, three tombs are entered by small horizontal shafts. One tomb that of Psamtik, a royal chief physician still has an enormous carved anthropoid sarcophagus which is empty-the lower half shaped to receive a coffin, the lid, a monolith weighing many tons is perched above it on stone built columns-the custodian suggested I climb on it to photograph the ceilings of beautifully carved hieroglyphic text from the Book of the Dead. For the purist the flash had a UV filter to minimise any unlikely damaging effect on any coloured paintings [Sanders: technical bulletin 16 1995-NPG]. Debate about stone sarcophagus made of, as larger than any of existing shafts-from memory did not feel like granite. The carving skills though were brilliant and the arched tombs covered with text awesome. In the tomb of Pediese, son of Psamtik has coloured ceilings with stars and some painted hieroglyphic text. Access I understand is now limited and is mostly closed. Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Saqqara, Saqqarah, Pyramid, Unas, Unis, south, necropolis, Persian, period, Shaft, tombs, Psamtik, Psamtek, Psametik, chief, physician, Zannehib, Djenhebu, Tjanhebu, admiral, Pediese, Paydees, Padiaset, son, below, ground, deep, spiral, staircase, subterranean, underground, hieroglyphs, hieroglyphics, texts, Book, Dead, funerary, spells, mortuary, formulas, walls, carvings, painted, coloured, reliefs, stars, ceiling, curved, arched, sarcophagus, shaped, base, stone, monolith, lid, granite, carved, coffin, form, November, 1995, 645, transparency, film, Fuji, RDP2, 100asa, colour, scanned, scan, Bronica, ETRSi, medium, wide angle, 40mm f4, flash, Metz, 45CL-4, ultra-violet, filter, upright

Egypt > Valley of Kings Luxor (1 file)

Photographs of the Valley of the Kings from tomb interiors as well as exterior views of the valley including the tombs of Ramses 1V, KV 43 and 19.
Tomb Ramasses IV EG017111JHP Ancient Egyptian Tomb Ramses Corridor Wall Book Dead Hieroglyphs Afterlife Spell in the Valley of the Kings on the West Bank of the River Nile at Luxor, the ancient Egyptian capital city of Thebes and is a spectacular example of true majesty with scale, colour and elaborate craftsmanship carved out of solid rock. This was the only opportunity I had of using a tripod, special ticket available in 2001 and I had a roll of tungsten artificial light balanced slide film which allowed long exposures and a decent depth of field. The custodians could not have been more helpful and even cleared areas for me to photograph free of visitors but oh for my D700 DSLR. Keywords: Egypt, Luxor, West Bank, Thebes, Valley, Kings, Ramses, Ramasses, Ramesses, 1V, tomb, interior, inside, landscape, ancient, Egyptian, archaeology, Egyptology, tungsten, slide, scanned, burial, formula, Book, Dead, hieroglyphs, coloured, colored, colourful, colorful, colours, colors, painted, ceiling, stars, spells

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