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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.
© Jim Henderson
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| Photographer: | Jim Henderson | |||
| Collection: | Saqqara & Memphis | |||
| Filename: | Saqqara & Unas Pyramid 6895EG07JHP |
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| Upload Date: | 2007-10-27 10:47:06 | |||
| Photo Size: | 13mb 5295x3543 pixels | |||
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| Caption: | Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Unas Unis Saqqara Causeway Gates Rubble Destroyed,south of Cairo is viewed through the gates of its causeway to the Pharaoh's Valley temple which is located near to the main entrance to the site. Now very ruined the pyramid is adjacent to the Step Pyramid enclosure wall and near a complex of fascinating mastaba tombs. |
| Keywords: | Egypt, Egyptian, Saqqarah, Saqqara, Memphis, Bedrashein, necropolis, Unas, Unis, texts, pyramid, gate, causeway, valley, temple, landscape, digital, recent, history, antiquity, Egyptology, archaeology, ancient, history, desert, sand, mastabas, tombs |