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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 Museum 6793EG07JHP Saqqara Museum Ancient Egyptian Step Pyramid Burial Chambers Tiles Faience exhibit in this new museum by the modern ticket office at entrance to the Saqqara necropolis south of Cairo. These wall decorations of blue and green faience tiles are from the burial chamber complex under the Step Pyramid built for King Djoser around 2500BC under the architectural control of Imhotep who later was deified. Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Cairo, Saqqarah, Saqqara, Memphis, Bedrashein, necropolis, entrance, ticket, office, modern, landscape, digital, history, antiquity, Egyptology, archaeology, museum, exhibit, blue, green, faience, tiles, burial, chamber, galleries, storage, ancient, history, royal, tombs, Zoser, Djoser, pharaoh, king, Step, Pyramid, palm, stems, ribbed, rushes, reeds, stems
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Saqqara Museum 6793EG07JHP
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Saqqara Museum Ancient Egyptian Step Pyramid Burial Chambers Tiles Faience

exhibit in this new museum by the modern ticket office at entrance to the Saqqara necropolis south of Cairo. These wall decorations of blue and green faience tiles are from the burial chamber complex under the Step Pyramid built for King Djoser around 2500BC under the architectural control of Imhotep who later was deified.
Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Cairo, Saqqarah, Saqqara, Memphis, Bedrashein, necropolis, entrance, ticket, office, modern, landscape, digital, history, antiquity, Egyptology, archaeology, museum, exhibit, blue, green, faience, tiles, burial, chamber, galleries, storage, ancient, history, royal, tombs, Zoser, Djoser, pharaoh, king, Step, Pyramid, palm, stems, ribbed, rushes, reeds, stems