And I was right. The pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, Egypt. In the Saqqara necropolis, just outside Cairo, I marvelled at the world’s oldest surviving pyramid and the slightly claustrophobic but ...

It was built entirely out of stone by Imhotep in the vast Saqqara necropolis south of Cairo to be the final resting place of King Djoser, founder of the Old Kingdom from the third dynasty.

The Seven Wonders of the World are often seen as the pinnacle of human architecture and the perfect form of engineering, that ...

Papyri of the Book of the Dead ascribable to the Memphite necropolis are rare ... a format attested only at Saqqara. Few examples in the world exhibit this arrangement. Only two other manuscripts ...

A Bedouin on a camel by the Pyramids of Khafre and Menkaure at the Giza Necropolis in Egypt ... copy of which was recently found in a tomb at Saqqara. In ancient Egyptian mythology, one of ...

It was found at an ancient burial ground in Saqqara, which dates back to 2,700 BCE ... Such was the case when they came across an ancient necropolis bearing these skulls. They were discovered at Egypt ...