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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 Great Ramses Statute 6981EG07JHP Ramses 11 Statue Memphis Egypt Museum Covered Granite Lying Interior at this ancient and probably original capital city site of early Egypt is now an enclosed open air museum with a few famous relicts such as this huge limestone statue 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, Ramses, Ramasses, limestone, statue, colossal, enclosure, open air museum, upright, history, antiquity, Egyptology, archaeology, history
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Collection: Saqqara & Memphis
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Memphis Great Ramses Statute 6981EG07JHP
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Ramses 11 Statue Memphis Egypt Museum Covered Granite Lying Interior

at this ancient and probably original capital city site of early Egypt is now an enclosed open air museum with a few famous relicts such as this huge limestone statue 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, Ramses, Ramasses, limestone, statue, colossal, enclosure, open air museum, upright, history, antiquity, Egyptology, archaeology, history