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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 Barque Carving EG051133jhp Saqqarah Unis Causeway carving ancient Egyptian granite columns pulling sleds that remain and have been built into the restored walkway from the Pyramid of Unas near the Step Pyramid and which slopes down to the Valley Temple first seen as visitors arrive at this major complex near Memphis. Recent archaeological work has discovered tombs underneath the causeway such as that of the Two Brothers while many other undiscovered or partially excavated ones lie alongside the causeway as do boat pits. Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Saqqarah, Saqqara, Memphis, Bedrashein, necropolis, Unas, Unis, Wenis, stele, texts, step, pyramid, causeway, valley, temple, landscape, carvings, carving, relief, sandstone, boats, barge, pulling, transport, granite, columns, sled, sledge, Aswan, water, river, Nile, digital, recent, history, antiquity, Egyptology, archaeology, ancient, history
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Photographer: Jim Henderson
Collection: Saqqara & Memphis
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Saqqara Barque Carving EG051133jhp
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Saqqarah Unis Causeway carving ancient Egyptian granite columns pulling sleds

that remain and have been built into the restored walkway from the Pyramid of Unas near the Step Pyramid and which slopes down to the Valley Temple first seen as visitors arrive at this major complex near Memphis. Recent archaeological work has discovered tombs underneath the causeway such as that of the Two Brothers while many other undiscovered or partially excavated ones lie alongside the causeway as do boat pits.
Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Saqqarah, Saqqara, Memphis, Bedrashein, necropolis, Unas, Unis, Wenis, stele, texts, step, pyramid, causeway, valley, temple, landscape, carvings, carving, relief, sandstone, boats, barge, pulling, transport, granite, columns, sled, sledge, Aswan, water, river, Nile, digital, recent, history, antiquity, Egyptology, archaeology, ancient, history