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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.
Memphis Alabaster Sphinx 6970EG07JHP Alabaster Sphinx Pharaoh Amenhotep Museum Ancient Egyptian Memphis Exhibit at 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 this carved human headed lion block 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, alabaster, sphinx, nemes, headdress, haunch, beard, excavated, Petrie, Amenhotep 11, enclosure, open air museum, landscape, history, antiquity, Egyptology, archaeology
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Photographer: Jim Henderson
Collection: Saqqara & Memphis
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Memphis Alabaster Sphinx 6970EG07JHP
Upload Date: 2007-10-27 11:30:15
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Alabaster Sphinx Pharaoh Amenhotep Museum Ancient Egyptian Memphis Exhibit at

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 this carved human headed lion block 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, alabaster, sphinx, nemes, headdress, haunch, beard, excavated, Petrie, Amenhotep 11, enclosure, open air museum, landscape, history, antiquity, Egyptology, archaeology