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Saqqara
Saqqara preserves more than three millennia of funerary architecture and is central to understanding how Egyptian royal tomb building developed. The Step Pyramid complex of Djoser is one part of a much larger archaeological landscape.
Saqqara preserves more than three millennia of funerary architecture and is central to understanding how Egyptian royal tomb building developed. The Step Pyramid complex of Djoser is one part of a much larger archaeological landscape.
Saqqara preserves more than three millennia of funerary architecture and is central to understanding how Egyptian royal tomb building developed. The Step Pyramid complex of Djoser is one part of a much larger archaeological landscape.
A closer look
Three details that change the way you see it.
The Step Pyramid complex as an architectural experiment.
The scale of the wider necropolis beyond Djoser.
How tomb form and decoration changed across long periods.
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Journey to the Origins
A deeper archaeological day linking Saqqara, Memphis and Dahshur to the development of royal monuments before Giza.
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