Egypt > Saqqara & Memphis > Saqqara Necropolis EG051105jhp
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
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| Photographer: | Jim Henderson | |||
| Collection: | Saqqara & Memphis | |||
| Filename: | Saqqara Necropolis EG051105jhp |
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| Upload Date: | 2005-04-20 10:01:49 | |||
| Photo Size: | 10mb 5313x3555 pixels | |||
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| Caption: | Saqqara Egypt Necropolis desert mastabas archaic old kingdom limestone brickslooking northwards from the oldest stone built monument in the world, the Step Pyramid built for King Djoser around 2500BC, and looking northwards amongst the extensive desert topography we have evidence of some of the Archaic and Old Kingdom Mastabas with much covered archaeology. |
| Keywords: | Egypt, Egyptian, Saqqarah, Saqqara, Bedrashein, necropolis, history, antiquity, Egyptology, archaeology, ancient, history, Giza, Abusir, landscape, royal, tombs, pyramids, Step Pyramid, monument, stone, first, funerary, 1st Dynasty, Archaic, Old, Kingdom, Mastabas, desert, sand, limestone |