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Egypt > Saqqara & Memphis (1 file)

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 Necropolis EG051119jhp
Saqqarah Egyptian tombs pyramids Red Bent Dashur Mehu Nebet Ihut south distance view photographed from the oldest stone built monument in the world, built for King Djoser around 2500BC, and looking southwards from the enclosure of the Step pyramid near the south tomb wall and just encroaching on the right is the Pyramid of Unas and in the foreground are the roofs of Mastabas of important officials such as Mehu including tombs of Royal Princesses Idut and Queen Nebet.
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