Image Memphis Open Air Museum 6977EG07JHP by Jim Henderson

Egypt > Saqqara & Memphis > Memphis Open Air Museum 6977EG07JHP
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.
Memphis Open Air Museum 6977EG07JHP Memphis Exhibit Ancient Egypt Capital Lower Egypt Statue Ramses Pharaoh part of this site near this ancient and probably original capital city of early Egypt is now an enclosed open air museum with a few famous relicts such as the huge limestone statue of the great Ramesses 11 lying in its covered hut or the Alabaster Sphinx weighing in at 80 tons and thought to be Amenhotep 11. Apart from a few statues and other items little remains of Memphis, possibly founded in 3100BC by the First Dynasty King Menes on land reclaimed from the River Nile. Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Memphis, Menufer, Menes, Mena, 3100BC, capital, city, Mit Rahinah, ancient, Ptah, exhibits, royal, statue, standing, seated, broken, enclosure, open air museum, landscape, history, antiquity, Egyptology, archaeology, palm, trees, hedges
© Jim Henderson
"<" back one image forward one image ">"

Photographer: Jim Henderson
Collection: Saqqara & Memphis
Filename:
Memphis Open Air Museum 6977EG07JHP
Upload Date: 2007-10-27 11:32:46
Photo Size: 10mb 5295x3543 pixels
Preview:
  comp 840x562

Caption:

Memphis Exhibit Ancient Egypt Capital Lower Egypt Statue Ramses Pharaoh

part of this site near this ancient and probably original capital city of early Egypt is now an enclosed open air museum with a few famous relicts such as the huge limestone statue of the great Ramesses 11 lying in its covered hut or the Alabaster Sphinx weighing in at 80 tons and thought to be Amenhotep 11. Apart from a few statues and other items little remains of Memphis, possibly founded in 3100BC by the First Dynasty King Menes on land reclaimed from the River Nile.
Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Memphis, Menufer, Menes, Mena, 3100BC, capital, city, Mit Rahinah, ancient, Ptah, exhibits, royal, statue, standing, seated, broken, enclosure, open air museum, landscape, history, antiquity, Egyptology, archaeology, palm, trees, hedges