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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 Ti Burial Shaft 6870EG07JHP Saqqara Egypt Burial Shaft Passageway Underground Mastaba Tomb Ti Ty, overseer for the building of Sun Temples at nearby Abusir for the Pharaohs Neferikare and Niuserre of the 5th Dynasty c 2498-2345BC, is on the far edge of the north Saqqara necropolis and is reached by a walk past statues of three Greek Philosophers. It is fine example of the later style of the evolution of the mastaba tomb with a pillared portico, courtyard, burial shaft and a room with Ti’s replica statue viewed through a hole in similar fashion to the serdab of King Doser by the Step Pyramid. Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Saqqarah, Saqqara, mastaba, tomb, Ti, Ty, tomb, shaft, passgeway, underground, dark, entrance, hole, overseer, landscape, history antiquity Egyptology archaeology, ancient, history
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Collection: Saqqara & Memphis
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Saqqara Ti Burial Shaft 6870EG07JHP
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Saqqara Egypt Burial Shaft Passageway Underground Mastaba Tomb Ti Ty,

overseer for the building of Sun Temples at nearby Abusir for the Pharaohs Neferikare and Niuserre of the 5th Dynasty c 2498-2345BC, is on the far edge of the north Saqqara necropolis and is reached by a walk past statues of three Greek Philosophers. It is fine example of the later style of the evolution of the mastaba tomb with a pillared portico, courtyard, burial shaft and a room with Ti’s replica statue viewed through a hole in similar fashion to the serdab of King Doser by the Step Pyramid.
Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Saqqarah, Saqqara, mastaba, tomb, Ti, Ty, tomb, shaft, passgeway, underground, dark, entrance, hole, overseer, landscape, history antiquity Egyptology archaeology, ancient, history