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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.
Pyramid of Unas Saqqara 6900EG07JHP Ancient Egypt Pyramid Unas Saqqara Illustrates Poor Cheap Quality Foundations of the later pyramid construction but it is famed for its elaborate Pyramid Texts adorning the inner burial chamber. It is now seldom open to public visit. Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Saqqarah, Saqqara, Memphis, Bedrashein, necropolis, Unas, Unis, texts, pyramid, erosion, base, foundations, ruined, rubble, landscape, digital, recent, history, antiquity, Egyptology, archaeology, ancient, history, desert, sand, mastabas, tombs
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Collection: Saqqara & Memphis
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Pyramid of Unas Saqqara 6900EG07JHP
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Ancient Egypt Pyramid Unas Saqqara Illustrates Poor Cheap Quality Foundations

of the later pyramid construction but it is famed for its elaborate Pyramid Texts adorning the inner burial chamber. It is now seldom open to public visit.
Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Saqqarah, Saqqara, Memphis, Bedrashein, necropolis, Unas, Unis, texts, pyramid, erosion, base, foundations, ruined, rubble, landscape, digital, recent, history, antiquity, Egyptology, archaeology, ancient, history, desert, sand, mastabas, tombs