Memphis, Saqqara, & Aswan Egypt
November 15th 2006 Memphis, Saqqara & Aswan Egypt
For my last afternoon in Cairo I decided to squeeze in a visit to the ancient sites of Memphis and Saqqara located about 30 miles south of the city. Memphis was one of the great cities of the ancient world but has now all but disappeared from centuries of pillaging and floods. It’s a fairly unimpressive site with only a few significant monuments and statues of Ra
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