Egypt > Saqqara & Memphis > Saqqara Fluted Columns 6952EG07JHP
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.
© Jim Henderson
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| Photographer: | Jim Henderson | |||
| Collection: | Saqqara & Memphis | |||
| Filename: | Saqqara Fluted Columns 6952EG07JHP |
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| Upload Date: | 2007-10-27 11:05:48 | |||
| Photo Size: | 7.4mb 5295x3543 pixels | |||
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| Caption: | Main Entrance Limestone Enclosure Wall Step Pyramid King Zoser Saqqarahdating from around 2500BC to the south of Cairo and near the ancient Egyptian capital of Memphis is through these fluted engaged columns creating a delicate colonnade from the entrance gate to the huge courtyard facing the south face of the oldest stone monument in the world. |
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