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Saqqara

Saqqara is a huge cemetary of ancient Memphis for many Old Kingdom pharoahs. Archeologists are still making new discoveries here. You could spend days in Saqqara and not see everything.

Outside Zoser's funerary complex are many tombs and temples, a few of which we went into. The walls have wonderful carvings of scenes from daily life that do not seem 4300 years old.
Step Pyramid: Earliest stone monument in the world 0656
Step Pyramid: Earliest stone monument in the world 0656		 Entrance to Zoser's funerary complex 0661
Entrance to Zoser's funerary complex 0661		 Great South Court 0667
Great South Court 0667		 Looking up papyrus columns at stone wooden beam ceiling 0678
Looking up "papyrus" columns at stone "wooden beam" ceiling 0678
Inside Pyramid of Teti, 1st ruler of 6th dynasty 0633
Inside Pyramid of Teti, 1st ruler of 6th dynasty 0633		 Inside Pyramid of Teti, 1st ruler of 6th dynasty 0634
Inside Pyramid of Teti, 1st ruler of 6th dynasty 0634		 Entrance to the Tomb of Mereruka 0636
Entrance to the Tomb of Mereruka 0636		 Inside Tomb of Mereruka: birds, boat and fish 0638
Inside Tomb of Mereruka: birds, boat and fish 0638
more boat and fish 0639
more boat and fish 0639		 Hippos and crocodiles 0640
Hippos and crocodiles 0640		 more hippos and crododiles 0641
more hippos and crododiles 0641		 Saving a calf from drowning 0642
Saving a calf from drowning 0642
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0644		 Farming 0645
Farming 0645		 Mereruka and his wife 0646
Mereruka and his wife 0646		 0650
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Boat and oarsmen 0652
Boat and oarsmen 0652		 Lunch 0679
Lunch 0679

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