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    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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    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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  • 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 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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  • 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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    causeway connecting Memphis and Saqqara, on which the procession of the dead bull travelled for burial in the Serapeum of Saqqara, but its been rejected by...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    a new Apis was found. Auguste Mariette's excavation of the Serapeum of Saqqara revealed the tombs of more than sixty animals, ranging from the time of...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • November 2018, it was announced that Wahtye's tomb had been found at the Saqqara necropolis. Inside the tomb were reliefs of Wahtye (he stole the tomb of...
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  • rituals, including the burial of several Apis bulls at the Serapeum of Saqqara. In year 16 of Ramesses, the Apis bull died and was buried in the Serapeum...
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