MEMPHIS and SAQQARA
We spent the morning of the second day of our tour at Memphis and Saqqara. Memphis was the capital of ancient Egypt. Unfortunately, little remains of the city itself.....just a small museum with some of the artifacts found at nearby sites.
A small alabaster sphinx at the Memphis Museum
Yours truly at the Memphis Museum
An old statue of Ramses II at the Memphis Museum. Finely sculpted, but in a sad state of disrepair at the time of our visit.
After a visit to the Memphis Museum, we drove to Saqqara, the necropolis of ancient Memphis. and home to the Step Pyramid of Zoser. This is not a real pyramid in the true sense of the word, but a series of mastabas constructed from mud bricks, and served as the tomb of King Zoser. We were not allowed to enter the tomb.
