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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 Step Pyramid 6901EG07JHP Step Pyramid King Djoser Saqqara Ancient Egypt First Earliest Stone Built and dating back to 2500BC is located at Saqqara south of Cairo, designed by the architect and later deity Imhotep is the oldest man made stone monument in the world. 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, desert, sand, limestone
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Collection: Saqqara & Memphis
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Saqqara Step Pyramid 6901EG07JHP
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Step Pyramid King Djoser Saqqara Ancient Egypt First Earliest Stone

Built and dating back to 2500BC is located at Saqqara south of Cairo, designed by the architect and later deity Imhotep is the oldest man made stone monument in the world.
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, desert, sand, limestone