Egypt > Saqqara & Memphis > Giza fm Saqqara EG051108jhp
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.
© Jim Henderson
 |
 |
| Photographer: | Jim Henderson | |||
| Collection: | Saqqara & Memphis | |||
| Filename: | Giza fm Saqqara EG051108jhp |
|||
| Upload Date: | 2005-04-20 10:02:25 | |||
| Photo Size: | 10mb 5313x3555 pixels | |||
| Preview: |
|
| Caption: | Saqqarah Egyptian Necropolis desert pyramids Giza Khafre Great Menkaure viewsdistance photographed from the oldest stone built monument in the world, built for King Djoser around 2500BC, and looking northwards towards the Giza Pyramids with the distinctive Abusir ruins foreshortened in the foreground. Amongst the extensive desert topography we have evidence of some of the Archaic Mastabas with much covered archaeology. |
| Keywords: | Egypt, Egyptian, Saqqarah, Saqqara, Bedrashein, necropolis, history, antiquity, Egyptology, archaeology, ancient, history, Giza, landscape, telephoto, royal, tombs, pyramids, Great, Pyramid, Khufu, Cheops, Khafre, Chephren, Menkaure, Mycerinus, monument, stone, first, funerary, 1st Dynasty, Archaic, Mastabas, desert, sand, limestone |