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The Saqqara Necropolis, the burial ground for the ancient capital city of Memphis located south of Cairo, recently announced ...

Egypt’s chief archaeologist has announced the discovery of a 4,300-year-old pyramid in Saqqara, the sprawling necropolis and burial site of the rulers of ancient Memphis. Current premium viewers ...

Archaeologists have discovered a new pyramid under the sands of Saqqara, an ancient burial site that remains largely unexplored Credit: AFP/GETTY The 4,300-year-old monument most likely belonged ...

Roger Anis Twenty miles south of Cairo, on the Nile's west bank, where riverfed crop fields give way to desert, the ancient site of Saqqara is marked by crumbling pyramids that emerge from the ...

The Step Pyramid at Saqqara in Egypt is thought to be the first monumental stone building in the world. The massive tomb, built for the Pharaoh Djoser, was also the prototype for all the pyramids ...

Tourist buses pass by Saqqara’s active excavation sites—megatombs of animal and human mummies—when they visit the 4,700-year-old Step Pyramid of Djoser, called the oldest pyramid ...

The artifacts, unearthed during a year-long excavation, were found beneath an ancient stone enclosure near the Saqqara pyramids and date back to the fifth and sixth dynasties of the Old Kingdom ...

Saqqara is an archaeologist's dream, being home to a vast number of ancient Egypt's mummies, tombs and around a dozen pyramids. Every year, researchers unearth new discoveries at the site ...

The step pyramid, located in the Saqqara necropolis, which lies on a limestone plateau on the west bank of the Nile River, may have been constructed with the help of an ingenious hydraulic lift ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered five well-preserved and colorfully decorated tombs, dating to around 4,200 years ago, that were dug beside a pyramid at Saqqara, the Egyptian Ministry of ...

Günter Dreyer, director of the German Archaeological Institute in Cairo, said he based his theory on similarities between Egypt’s first pyramid, built at Saqqara south of Cairo for the Pharaoh ...