Sakkara

Nile River Cruise Abu Simbel Alexandria Aswan Cairo to Alexandria Cairo Dendera Edfu Egypt 1957 Egypt 1957 El Alamein Esna Locks Karnak Kom Ombo Luxor On the Nile Philae Pyramids Sakkara Sphinx Valley of the Kings

Sakkara

 

 

Designed by Imhotep. chief architect of the III Dynasty pharaoh Djoser. this six-tired funerary chamber was the first pyramid. Prior to its construction. pharaohs were buried beneath rectangular mastabas. Imhotep created a pyramid by stacking six increasingly smaller mastabas on top of each other. Later pharaohs took it a step further to create the pyramids seen at Giza and elsewhere. An extensive funerary complex surrounds the pyramid.

 

 

Heb-Sed (Jubilee) Court in front of the pyramid

 

the court

 

lower part of the court

 

 

 

long and winding road

 

guide to the funerary complex

 

 

 

alabaster bowls, rock eggs, or rock on a string


Tombs

 

 

 

 


House of the South

 

 


 

 


Burial Chamber

 

 

the pit


Persian tombs

 

 

 

Please!


Nile River Cruise Abu Simbel Alexandria Aswan Cairo to Alexandria Cairo Dendera Edfu Egypt 1957 Egypt 1957 El Alamein Esna Locks Karnak Kom Ombo Luxor On the Nile Philae Pyramids Sakkara Sphinx Valley of the Kings

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