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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 Necropolis EG051103jhp Saqqara Ancient Egypt Necropolis Step pyramid Userkaf local limestone 5th Dynasty complex on the north east corner of the oldest stone built monument in the world, built for King Djoser around 2500BC, although it is in very poor condition probably being robbed of it Turah limstone casing in Saite times. Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Saqqarah, Saqqara, Bedrashein, Userkaf, pyramid, Step, necropolis, history, antiquity, Egyptology, archaeology, ancient, history, landscape, royal, tomb, Step Pyramid, monument, stone, first, funerary, 5th Dynasty, desert, sand, limestone, stones, bricks
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Photographer: Jim Henderson
Collection: Saqqara & Memphis
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Saqqara Necropolis EG051103jhp
Upload Date: 2005-04-20 10:00:40
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Saqqara Ancient Egypt Necropolis Step pyramid Userkaf local limestone 5th

Dynasty complex on the north east corner of the oldest stone built monument in the world, built for King Djoser around 2500BC, although it is in very poor condition probably being robbed of it Turah limstone casing in Saite times.
Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Saqqarah, Saqqara, Bedrashein, Userkaf, pyramid, Step, necropolis, history, antiquity, Egyptology, archaeology, ancient, history, landscape, royal, tomb, Step Pyramid, monument, stone, first, funerary, 5th Dynasty, desert, sand, limestone, stones, bricks