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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 Coffin Face 6841EG07JHP Saqqara Museum Exhibit Golden Mummy Mask Burial Gold Egyptian Inside this new museum by the modern ticket office at entrance to the Saqqara necropolis south of Cairo. This is the covering for a mummy and in the style of many such Late Period mummified coverings with gold plating or polychrome cartonnage giving it surprising richness. It is difficult to avoid reflections in the glass especially as access to take photographs is restricted, tripods and flash is banned and I understand that since I visited there has been an overall photography ban applied. Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Saqqarah, Saqqara, landscape, digital, recent, history, antiquity, Egyptology, archaeology, museum, coffin, golden, gold-plate, polychrome, cartonnage, late period, ancient, history
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Collection: Saqqara & Memphis
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Saqqara Museum Coffin Face 6841EG07JHP
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Saqqara Museum Exhibit Golden Mummy Mask Burial Gold Egyptian Inside

this new museum by the modern ticket office at entrance to the Saqqara necropolis south of Cairo. This is the covering for a mummy and in the style of many such Late Period mummified coverings with gold plating or polychrome cartonnage giving it surprising richness. It is difficult to avoid reflections in the glass especially as access to take photographs is restricted, tripods and flash is banned and I understand that since I visited there has been an overall photography ban applied.
Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Saqqarah, Saqqara, landscape, digital, recent, history, antiquity, Egyptology, archaeology, museum, coffin, golden, gold-plate, polychrome, cartonnage, late period, ancient, history