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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.
Dashur Pyramids fm Saqqara 6903EG07JHP Ancient Egyptian Dashur Pyramids Viewed Saqqara Enclosure Wall Step looking southwards across the desert escarpment south of Cairo from the enclosure wall around the Step Pyramid at Saqqara and it was here at Dashur with the Bent and Red pyramids that the next evolution in pyramid construction took place. Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Saqqarah, Saqqara, landscape, history, antiquity, Egyptology, archaeology, museum, ancient, history, Dashur, pyramids, causeway, Unas, desert, sand, construction, developements, Bent, Red
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Ancient Egyptian Dashur Pyramids Viewed Saqqara Enclosure Wall Step looking

southwards across the desert escarpment south of Cairo from the enclosure wall around the Step Pyramid at Saqqara and it was here at Dashur with the Bent and Red pyramids that the next evolution in pyramid construction took place.
Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Saqqarah, Saqqara, landscape, history, antiquity, Egyptology, archaeology, museum, ancient, history, Dashur, pyramids, causeway, Unas, desert, sand, construction, developements, Bent, Red