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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.
Egyptian Date Palms EG02AA45jhp Egypt Abu Ghurab mature palm trees fronds dates plantation grove along the edge of the desert and the fertile farmland and a way to see modern day Egyptian life that occurs with the irrigation of fertile farmland along a strip of land especially on the west bank of the River Nile next to the desert and main pyramid dveloped areas and which still plays an important part in the wealth of Egypt and in the lives of ordinary Egyptians today just as it has over the past 5000 years or so. Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Giza, Abu Ghurab, Ghurob, West, Bank, modern, farm, farming, daily, life, grass, upright, date, dates, growing, palms, palm, fronds, branches, trees, groves, plantations, desert, edge, border, fence, boundary
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Photographer: Jim Henderson
Collection: Saqqara & Memphis
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Egyptian Date Palms EG02AA45jhp
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Egypt Abu Ghurab mature palm trees fronds dates plantation grove

along the edge of the desert and the fertile farmland and a way to see modern day Egyptian life that occurs with the irrigation of fertile farmland along a strip of land especially on the west bank of the River Nile next to the desert and main pyramid dveloped areas and which still plays an important part in the wealth of Egypt and in the lives of ordinary Egyptians today just as it has over the past 5000 years or so.
Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Giza, Abu Ghurab, Ghurob, West, Bank, modern, farm, farming, daily, life, grass, upright, date, dates, growing, palms, palm, fronds, branches, trees, groves, plantations, desert, edge, border, fence, boundary