Saqqara (Arabic: سقارة : saqqāra[t], Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [sɑʔːɑːɾɑ]), also spelled Sakkara or Saccara in English /səˈkɑːrə/, is an Egyptian...
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Saqqara Bird is a model bird made of sycamore wood and mounted on a stick, discovered during the 1898 excavation of the tomb of Pa-di-Imen in Saqqara...
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The Serapeum of Saqqara was the ancient Egyptian burial place for sacred bulls of the Apis cult at Memphis. It was believed that the bulls were incarnations...
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Egyptian pyramids (section Saqqara)
pyramids are found at Saqqara, northwest of Memphis, although at least one step-pyramid-like structure has been found at Saqqara, dating to the First Dynasty:...
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The Saqqara Aramaic Stele is an Egyptian-Aramaic stele found in Saqqara in 1877. It was held in the Neues Museum in Berlin which was destroyed in World...
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Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb is a 2020 British documentary film directed by James Tovell. The film follows a team of Egyptian archeologists that discover...
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The Starving of Saqqara is the name given to a statue of suspected Predynastic Egyptian origins. The statue of two seated nude beings (possibly a male...
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The Saqqara Tablet, now in the Egyptian Museum, is an ancient stone engraving surviving from the Ramesside Period of Egypt which features a list of pharaohs...
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The Saqqara ostracon is an ostracon, an Egyptian antiquity tracing to the period of Djoser (2650 BC). It was excavated in or near 1925 in Djoser's Pyramid...
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causeway connecting Memphis and Saqqara, on which the procession of the dead bull travelled for burial in the Serapeum of Saqqara. While attempting to draw...
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Phoenician papyrus letters (redirect from Saqqara Phoenician letter)
Cairo in 1939, and the second in Saqqara in 1940. Both letters were first published by Noël Aimé-Giron. The Saqqara Phoenician letter is a papyrus letter...
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Memphite Necropolis (section Saqqara)
today in Giza, Egypt. It includes the pyramid complexes of Giza, Abusir, Saqqara and Dahshur, and is listed as the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Memphis...
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sources, was the first king of the Sixth Dynasty of Egypt. He was buried at Saqqara. The exact length of his reign has been destroyed on the Turin King List...
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The South Saqqara Stone is the lid of the sarcophagus of the ancient Egyptian queen Ankhesenpepi I, which was inscribed with a list for the reigns of...
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whose name did not survive. They were depicted in their parents' tomb in Saqqara. She was born in the reign of Horemheb into a non-royal family, before...
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Merneith (section Tombs at Abydos and Saqqara)
the Palermo Stone. Items from the great mastaba (Nr 3503, 16 x 42 m) in Saqqara, where her name has been found in inscriptions on stone vessels, jars,...
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Abydos Seal prints from graves 2185 and 3471 in Saqqara Inscriptions in graves 3503, 3506 and 3035 in Saqqara Seal impression and inscriptions from Helwan...
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is the oldest known life-sized Egyptian statue. Today, at the site in Saqqara where it was found, a plaster copy of it stands in place of the original...
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that these kings ruled from Memphis, since their pyramids were built at Saqqara, very close one to another. By the Fifth Dynasty, the religious institution...
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The Adon Papyrus, also known as the Aramaic Saqqara Papyrus is an Aramaic papyrus found in 1942 at Saqqara. It was first published in 1948 by André Dupont-Sommer...
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relief from Saqqara, Fifth Dynasty. It is now at Egyptian Museum, Cairo, Egypt. c. 2494–2345 BC: The Seated Scribe, a sculpture found at Saqqara, Fifth Dynasty...
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Sabu disk (category Saqqara)
Dynasty, c. 3000 to 2800 BC. It was found in 1936 in the north of the Saqqara necropolis in mastaba S3111, the grave of the ancient Egyptian official...
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red, green and black ink on gypsum and cedar wood. Very selective. South Saqqara Stone (6th Dynasty); carved on a black basalt slab. Very selective. Karnak...
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Pyramid of Khendjer at Saqqara The pyramidion of Merneferre Ay, probably from Saqqara The pyramidion of the Southern South Saqqara pyramid A badly damaged...
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especially the stepped designs of the oldest pyramids (Pyramid of Zoser at Saqqara, 2600 BCE), may have been an evolution from the ziggurats built in Mesopotamia...
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vizier. He and his descendants were buried at Saqqara. Ptahhotep's tomb is located in a mastaba in North Saqqara (Mastaba D62). His grandson Ptahhotep Tjefi...
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find it. The consensus is [citation needed]that it is hidden somewhere at Saqqara. Imhotep's historicity is confirmed by two contemporary inscriptions made...
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86611000; 31.21698889 The Memphite Tomb of Horemheb is located in the Saqqara necropolis, near Memphis, Egypt. It was constructed before Horemheb ascended...
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Ola El Aguizy (section Excavations at Saqqara)
published widely on the language. Since 2005, she has led excavations at Saqqara, uncovering the tombs of several notable figures connected to Ramesses...
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