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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 Tomb Entrance EG051147jhp Saqqara buried tomb door lintel carved entrance hieroglyphs ancient Egyptian is alongside the restored walkway from the Pyramid of Unas near the Step Pyramid and which slopes down to the Valley Temple first seen as visitors arrive at this major complex near Memphis. Recent archaeological work has discovered tombs underneath the causeway such as that of the Two Brothers while many other undiscovered or partially excavated ones lie alongside the causeway as do boat pits. Advised by my custodian guide this was the Tomb of Nefer-mery but I can find no reference to it in any books or the Internet but I have had it confirmed that this is probably correct based on the hieroglyphics on the tomb entrance. Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Saqqarah, Saqqara, Memphis, Bedrashein, necropolis, Unas, Unis, Wenis, stele, texts, step, pyramid, causeway, valley, temple, landscape, carvings, carving, relief, granite, lintel, hieroglyphics, hieroglyphs, digital, recent, history, antiquity, Egyptology, archaeology, ancient, history, desert, sand, mastaba, tomb, Nefer-mery, nefer-mry, sunken;
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Saqqara Tomb Entrance EG051147jhp
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Saqqara buried tomb door lintel carved entrance hieroglyphs ancient Egyptian

is alongside the restored walkway from the Pyramid of Unas near the Step Pyramid and which slopes down to the Valley Temple first seen as visitors arrive at this major complex near Memphis. Recent archaeological work has discovered tombs underneath the causeway such as that of the Two Brothers while many other undiscovered or partially excavated ones lie alongside the causeway as do boat pits. Advised by my custodian guide this was the Tomb of Nefer-mery but I can find no reference to it in any books or the Internet but I have had it confirmed that this is probably correct based on the hieroglyphics on the tomb entrance.
Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Saqqarah, Saqqara, Memphis, Bedrashein, necropolis, Unas, Unis, Wenis, stele, texts, step, pyramid, causeway, valley, temple, landscape, carvings, carving, relief, granite, lintel, hieroglyphics, hieroglyphs, digital, recent, history, antiquity, Egyptology, archaeology, ancient, history, desert, sand, mastaba, tomb, Nefer-mery, nefer-mry, sunken;