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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 Jubilee Court EG051084jhp Step Pyramid Saqqara Egyptian Ancient Stone Monument Hed-Sed Festival Court oldest stone built complex in the world, built for King Djoser around 2500BC, is viewed from the Hed-Seb Festival Court with its stylish fluted columns based on the stems of papyrus reeds Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Saqqarah, Saqqara, Bedrashein, necropolis, history, antiquity, Egyptology, archaeology, ancient, history, upright, royal, tombs, pyramid, Zoser, Djoser, pharaoh, king, Step Pyramid, monument, stone, first, funerary, Hed-Seb, Jubilee, canonical, shrines, desert, sand, colonnade, ribbed, engaged, rushes, reeds, stems, pented, limestone
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Saqqara Jubilee Court EG051084jhp
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Step Pyramid Saqqara Egyptian Ancient Stone Monument Hed-Sed Festival Court

oldest stone built complex in the world, built for King Djoser around 2500BC, is viewed from the Hed-Seb Festival Court with its stylish fluted columns based on the stems of papyrus reeds
Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Saqqarah, Saqqara, Bedrashein, necropolis, history, antiquity, Egyptology, archaeology, ancient, history, upright, royal, tombs, pyramid, Zoser, Djoser, pharaoh, king, Step Pyramid, monument, stone, first, funerary, Hed-Seb, Jubilee, canonical, shrines, desert, sand, colonnade, ribbed, engaged, rushes, reeds, stems, pented, limestone