Complejo de Saqqara
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 2.62 mi
- Elevation gain
- 184 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 184 ft
- Max elevation
- 194 ft
- TrailRank
- 19
- Min elevation
- 50 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Moving time
- 43 minutes
- Time
- one hour 35 minutes
- Coordinates
- 528
- Uploaded
- May 5, 2024
- Recorded
- May 2024
near Şaqqārah, Giza (Egypt)
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Visit the Saqqara complex and see the Pyramid of Djoser, considered the first Pyramid directed by the architect Imhotep for Pharaoh Djoser, belonging to the III Dynasty. You access the interior of the Pyramid through an entrance that is not the original one and you reach the well that was the 28 m deep Mortuary Chamber. (The entrance is additional to the general entrance to Saqqara and cost us on May 5, 2024 220 Egyptian pounds). The Pyramid enclosure is accessed through a temple with a room of columns without inscriptions. You enter a square walled enclosure where a party was held to demonstrate the pharaoh's youth. At the bottom of that enclosure is the Step Pyramid, with 6 steps (each with 10 steps and each step having the shape of a mastaba).
In addition, tombs (nastabas) from later years belonging to nobles and princesses are visited, with scenes of daily life (butchers, agriculture, fishing, sanctions for those who do not pay taxes, etc.).
The Pyramid of Pharaoh Unas y otros is also located in the complex.
In addition, tombs (nastabas) from later years belonging to nobles and princesses are visited, with scenes of daily life (butchers, agriculture, fishing, sanctions for those who do not pay taxes, etc.).
The Pyramid of Pharaoh Unas y otros is also located in the complex.
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Monument
172 ft
Puramide Escalonada de Zoser
First Pyramid by architect Imhotep for Pharaoh Djoser of the 3rd Dynasty. Year 2600 BC.
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Monument
192 ft
Complejo funerario de Saqqara y pirámides de Dashur al fondo.
Saqqara is an immense funerary complex where, in addition to the Pyramid of Djoser, there are other pyramids (that of Unas, the first with inscriptions that was damaged in the 1992 earthquake) and mastabas of important figures.
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