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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 6848EG07JHP Saqqara Museum Egyptian Jewellery Gold Collar Lapis Lazuli Faience Winged Scarab exhibit in this new museum by the modern ticket office at entrance to the Saqqara necropolis south of Cairo. This elaborately decorated funerary necklace dating possibly from the 3rd Dynasty and found north of the Unas Causeway is on the site of the Step Pyramid built for King Djoser around 2500BC under the architectural control of Imhotep who later was deified. Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Saqqarah, Saqqara, necropolis, entrance, ticket, office, modern, 2007, landscape, digital, history, antiquity, Egyptology, archaeology, museum, exhibit, blue, green, faience, lapis lazuli, inlaid, gold, collar, cartonnage, necklace, semi-precious, scarab, solar, wings, Horus, funerary, burial
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Saqqara Museum 6848EG07JHP
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Saqqara Museum Egyptian Jewellery Gold Collar Lapis Lazuli Faience Winged

Scarab exhibit in this new museum by the modern ticket office at entrance to the Saqqara necropolis south of Cairo. This elaborately decorated funerary necklace dating possibly from the 3rd Dynasty and found north of the Unas Causeway is on the site of the Step Pyramid built for King Djoser around 2500BC under the architectural control of Imhotep who later was deified.
Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Saqqarah, Saqqara, necropolis, entrance, ticket, office, modern, 2007, landscape, digital, history, antiquity, Egyptology, archaeology, museum, exhibit, blue, green, faience, lapis lazuli, inlaid, gold, collar, cartonnage, necklace, semi-precious, scarab, solar, wings, Horus, funerary, burial