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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 Unas Causeway EG051146jhp Saqqara Unas Unis Wenis Causeway Pyramid Granite Gateway ancient Egypt last section view of the restored walkway to the Pyramid of Unas near the Step Pyramid and which slopes up from the Valley Temple first seen as visitors arrive at this major complex near Memphis. Recent archaeological work has discovered tombs near the causeway such as that of the Two Brothers and the New Kingdom cemetery uncovered by the Leiden Dutch work while many other undiscovered or partially excavated ones lie alongside the causeway as do boat pits. Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Saqqarah, Saqqara, Memphis, Bedrashein, necropolis, Unas, Unis, Wenis, pyramid, causeway, valley, temple, landscape, limestone, slabs, stone, granite, sarcophagus, gate, gatway, mortuary, digital, recent, history, antiquity, Egyptology, archaeology, ancient, history, desert, sand, boat, pits
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Saqqara Unas Causeway EG051146jhp
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Saqqara Unas Unis Wenis Causeway Pyramid Granite Gateway ancient Egypt

last section view of the restored walkway to the Pyramid of Unas near the Step Pyramid and which slopes up from the Valley Temple first seen as visitors arrive at this major complex near Memphis. Recent archaeological work has discovered tombs near the causeway such as that of the Two Brothers and the New Kingdom cemetery uncovered by the Leiden Dutch work while many other undiscovered or partially excavated ones lie alongside the causeway as do boat pits.
Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Saqqarah, Saqqara, Memphis, Bedrashein, necropolis, Unas, Unis, Wenis, pyramid, causeway, valley, temple, landscape, limestone, slabs, stone, granite, sarcophagus, gate, gatway, mortuary, digital, recent, history, antiquity, Egyptology, archaeology, ancient, history, desert, sand, boat, pits