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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 North House EG051095jhp Saqqarah Egypt North House Stone Papyrus column style Jubilee Court part of the Step Pyramid complex and the oldest stone monument world, built for King Djoser around 2500BC, near the Hed-Seb Festival Jubilee Court with its stylish fluted columns based on the stems of papyrus reeds are these two distinct mysterious buildings one with lily designs and the other with papyrus stile columns. In the South are the remains of 1st Kingdom graffiti, apologies for the legs, which is important in attributing the Step Pyramid to King Djoser by name. Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Saqqarah, Saqqara, Bedrashein, North, South, House, necropolis, history, antiquity, Egyptology, archaeology, ancient, history, upright, royal, tombs, pyramid, Zoser, Djoser, pharaoh, king, Step Pyramid, monument, stone, Hed-Seb, Jubilee, court, shrines, desert, sand, colonnade, ribbed, engaged, rushes, reeds, stems, pented, limestone, papyrus, designs
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Photographer: Jim Henderson
Collection: Saqqara & Memphis
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Saqqara North House EG051095jhp
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Saqqarah Egypt North House Stone Papyrus column style Jubilee Court

part of the Step Pyramid complex and the oldest stone monument world, built for King Djoser around 2500BC, near the Hed-Seb Festival Jubilee Court with its stylish fluted columns based on the stems of papyrus reeds are these two distinct mysterious buildings one with lily designs and the other with papyrus stile columns. In the South are the remains of 1st Kingdom graffiti, apologies for the legs, which is important in attributing the Step Pyramid to King Djoser by name.
Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Saqqarah, Saqqara, Bedrashein, North, South, House, necropolis, history, antiquity, Egyptology, archaeology, ancient, history, upright, royal, tombs, pyramid, Zoser, Djoser, pharaoh, king, Step Pyramid, monument, stone, Hed-Seb, Jubilee, court, shrines, desert, sand, colonnade, ribbed, engaged, rushes, reeds, stems, pented, limestone, papyrus, designs