Overview
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Drive from Giza Pyramids to Memphis, the capital of the Old Kingdom which was founded by the Pharaoh Mena around 3000 BC. It remained an important city throughout ancient Mediterranean history. View the statue of Ramses II, the alabaster Sphinx and the ruins of the temple of Ptah dated back to 3100 B.C. Then proceed to Saqqara to review the stepped Pyramid of Zoser and its funeral complex..
MEMPHIS AND SAKARA
The Memphis open air museum at Mit Rahina is a small diversion between Saqqara and Giza. It has a number of statues tagged as belonging to Ramses II, an alabaster sphinx, pieces of other statues and the colossi of Ramses II. Most of the displayed artifacts seem to be New Kingdom relics. The open air museum takes about 45 minutes to get around, and that is looking at and photographing each piece on display. During my visit here, a tourist policeman shouted at me while I was taking a photograph of one of the standing statues of Ramses II. He was holding an Ak47 at the time, so I turned and walked away. I feel he wanted baksheesh for letting me take a photograph of the statue with him next to it. The museum isn’t a reflection of ancient Memphis, as most Egyptologists state that the exact spot were Memphis lays is unknown. This museum is fine, it’s cheap entry but, I found it to be nothing more than a few statues plonked into someone’s farm paddock. Perhaps, Memphis is lying under farm land in the surrounding area and is waiting to be found, just as the Middle Kingdom’s capital, Itj-Tawy.
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Cairo
Cairo
Al Qahirah
Egypt
