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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 Fluted Entrance Columns 6913EG07JHP Step Pyramid Colonnade Fluted Limestone Columns Imhotep Egyptian Architect at the entrance to the oldest stone built monument in the world, the Step Pyramid of King Djoser at Saqqara, entered from the Hed-Seb Festival Court with its stylish fluted columns based on the stems of papyrus reeds. Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Saqqarah, Saqqara, Bedrashein, necropolis, history, antiquity, Egyptology, archaeology, ancient, history, landscape, royal, tombs, pyramid, Zoser, Djoser, pharaoh, king, Step Pyramid, monument, stone, first, funerary, Hed-Seb, Jubilee, canonical, shrines, desert, sand, colonnade, ribbed, engaged, rushes, reeds, stems, pented, limestone
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Photographer: Jim Henderson
Collection: Saqqara & Memphis
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Saqqara Fluted Entrance Columns 6913EG07JHP
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Step Pyramid Colonnade Fluted Limestone Columns Imhotep Egyptian Architect at

the entrance to the oldest stone built monument in the world, the Step Pyramid of King Djoser at Saqqara, entered from the Hed-Seb Festival Court with its stylish fluted columns based on the stems of papyrus reeds.
Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Saqqarah, Saqqara, Bedrashein, necropolis, history, antiquity, Egyptology, archaeology, ancient, history, landscape, royal, tombs, pyramid, Zoser, Djoser, pharaoh, king, Step Pyramid, monument, stone, first, funerary, Hed-Seb, Jubilee, canonical, shrines, desert, sand, colonnade, ribbed, engaged, rushes, reeds, stems, pented, limestone