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	The Ancient Egypt Site - Saqqara, City of the Dead
		Saqqara is located near the entrance of the Nile Delta, at the point where the river starts dividing into several arms, on the west bank of the Nile.
		The southern-most royal monument at Saqqara was built by Shepseskaf, the last king of the 4th Dynasty.
		Saqqara is located to the West of Memphis and was used as necropolis for some 3.000 years.
	www.ancient-egypt.org /topography/saqqara/index.html (1092 words)

	Saqqara
		Saqqara, known as the “City of the Dead,” is located west of the Nile River near the point where the river splits and flows to the Mediterranean Sea.
		Saqqara North covers the area between the Archaic tombs and the unfinished buildings of Sekhenkhet.
		Saqqara South is located between the pyramid of Pepi I and Shepsekaf.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/archaeology/sites/africa/saqqara.html (1321 words)

	SAQQARA
		The importance of the site of Saqqara is indicated by the crowded nature of the burials, with some having been used many times, and most having been plundered throughout antiquity.
		Beneath the ground, Saqqara is riddled with tombs, galleries and robber shafts, which are not always visible from the surface.
		The mastaba is situated in the south of Saqqara in an isolated area.
	www.egyptologyonline.com /saqqara.htm (1589 words)

	SAQQARA
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	Saqqara
		The tombs erected for Pharaohs at Saqqara belong to a period stretching from the 27th century to the 24th BCE, but the area was used for graves for millenniums after this time.
		The most famous structure of Saqqara is the Step Pyramid of Zoser, which was built under control of the architect Imhotep.
		The excavations of Saqqara belongs mainly to this century, and the mortuary complex around the Step Pyramid of Zoser was not reclaimed from the sand until 1924.
	lexicorient.com /e.o/saqqara.htm (185 words)

	Egyptvoyager.com: Saqqara Pyramid Complex - Egypt
		Saqqara was one of the main burial fields of the ancient city of Memphis, capital of Ancient Egypt during the Old Kingdom.
		On a clear day, its most prominent monument, the Step Pyramid of Djoser, can be seen from Giza, which lies some 17 kilometres to the North, and from Dashur, which lies 10 kilometres to the South.
		The modern-day village of Saqqara, which has lent its name to the entire area, is located due East of Saqqara South.
	www.egyptvoyager.com /pyramids_early_pyramids_saqqara.htm (193 words)

	Saqqara
		Saqqara is an immense necropolis (cemetery) just south of Cairo and west of the ancient city of Memphis of which very little remains.
		Around the northern-most of Saqqara's pyramids is that of the 6th Dynasty pharaoh Teti.
		Most people visiting Saqqara see only the surrounds of the Step Pyramid (its interior is off limits) and perhaps one tomb or pyramid depending on what is open.
	homepage.powerup.com.au /~ancient/saqqara.htm (381 words)

	Guardian's Saqqara
		Saqqara is the first site our tour, and rightly so, it represents the beginning of the pyramid age.
		Here at Saqqara in the late 3rd Dynasty, King Zoser, with the help of his Chief Architect Imhotep, decided to improve on the simple bench-like design with a series of steps that formed the first step pyramid.
		Saqqara is a huge ancient site and has many more components which will be added to this site later.
	www.guardians.net /egypt/saqqara1.htm (336 words)

	Saqqara (Sakkara, Egypt. Dynasty 1,2,3)
		However the necropolis of Helwan and Saqqara, east and west of the city, were undoubtly founded in the Dynasty 0 and in the early First Dynasty respectively.
		The earliest known mastaba is situated in the North Saqqara plateau and dates to the reign of Horus Aha (S3357); more mastabas were built north and south of it in the following reigns of the First Dynasty, exhausting, by the reign of Qa'a, all the available space on the eastern edge of the escarpment.
		- Tomb 3070 at Saqqara (W.B. Emery) JEA 54, 1968, 11-3
	xoomer.alice.it /francescoraf/hesyra/Saqqara.htm (10733 words)

	Saqqara
		Saqqara was the principal necropolis of the ancient city of Memphis which was in use from the 1st-Dynasty (3100 - 2890 BCE) to the Christian period (CE 395 - 540).
		Saqqara is best known for the Step Pyramid, but it is also famous for its private Old Kingdom tombs which contain beautiful and revealing scenes.
		Beneath the ground, Saqqara is honeycombed with intercut tombs, galleries, and robber shafts, not always visible on the desert surface.
	www.grisel.net /saqqara.htm (105 words)

	Saqqara
		Saqqara is a special spot because its monuments cover every period of ancient Egyptian history, from the 1st dynasty to the Ptolemaic and Persian periods.
		The best way to visit Saqqara and Dahshur is with a long-distance taxi from Cairo.
		Saqqara is 22 mi/33 km south of Cairo, on the west bank of the Nile.
	www.angelfire.com /crazy3/visitegypt/saqqara.htm (274 words)

	Saqqara
		It is very imposing and sets to mood for the whole Saqqara necropolis.
		Saqqara is traditionally divided in 3 areas by the Egyptologist.
		The north sector, includes the pyramid of Teti, the mastabas of Mereruka and Kagemni, the 1st/2nd dynasty mastabas and the baboon galleries.
	egyptphoto.ncf.ca /Saqqara.htm (345 words)

	Memphis / Saqqara
		There had been burials at Saqqara for generations before the 3rd Dynasty, but it was with the burial of Djoser that the necropolis of Saqqara was to become much more popular.
		Djoser's funerary complex was to completely command the saqqara skyline with the construction of the first pyramid in Egypt's history (not a smooth-sided pyramid of later pharaohs, but a six stepped construction).
		During the Middle Kingdom, the burials of the pharaohs of Egypt moved away from Saqqara to the Faiyum - similarly the nobles and court officials of the period also chose to move their tombs away from Saqqara to be buried close to their kings.
	members.tripod.com /~ib205/memphis_saqqara.html (446 words)

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	EgyptSites - Saqqara introduction
		Saqqara is the location of the principal necropolis of ancient Memphis, dating from the time of the foundation of the city.
		North Saqqara includes the Step Pyramid and Old and New Kingdom cemeteries and South Saqqara, is the area from the Pyramid of Pepy I and the other pyramids immediately to the south.
		During the Middle Kingdom the focus once more swung away from Saqqara towards the regions further south and the last pyramid to be built at South Saqqara was that of the Dynasty XIII King Kendjer, the only pharaoh of this dynasty known to have completed a pyramid as his funerary monument.
	www.egyptsites.co.uk /lower/saqqara/intro.html (906 words)

	Flying the Saqqara Bird
		In fact the Saqqara Bird has no markings apart from the eyes, beak and stripe, which are all painted on.
		The combination of vertical fin and this tailplane is aerodynamically equivalent to the Saqqara Bird's fin.
		The two descriptions of the Saqqara Bird I've seen that quote its weight (Atlantis Rising Issue Number 5 and The Augusta Chronicle, 15 Feb 1998) give it as 0.5 oz (14 g) and 1.11 oz (31 g) respectively.
	www.catchpenny.org /birdtest.html (1472 words)

	Ancient Saqqara Funerary Area in Egypt
		This was the necropolis for the first pharaohs, at the time of Memphis being the capital, and has therefore the oldest pyramids of all.
		The tombs erected at Saqqara belong to a period stretching from the 27th century to the 24th BC, for the part of the Pharaohs, while the area was used for millennias after this time.
		The excavations of Saqqara belongs mainly to this century, and the morturary complex around the Step Pyramid of Zoser, was not reclaimed from the sand until 1924.
	ancientneareast.tripod.com /Saqqara.html (222 words)

	Saqqara (Egypt) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Saqqara is part of the huge cemetery associated with the city of Memphis and covers an area more than 6 km long by 1.5 km wide.
		In the north-east part of Saqqara is a series of catacombs called the Serapeum.
		Saqqara continued in use until the Christian period, when the monastery of Apa Jeremias was built.
	www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk /compass/ixbin/goto?id=enc111068 (298 words)

	Saqqara Shifts Business Model -- E-Procurement -- InformationWeek
		As more companies look for a total package that includes software and services, Saqqara Systems Inc. is shifting its business model toward becoming a spend-management-software company and away from a 9-year-old focus on product content and data management for E-catalogs.
		Saqqara's managed services let Alcoa intelligently unify and manage its requirements for supplier engagement, content acquisition, content transformation, and publication.
		Saqqara said it has invested $30 million in the automated system, and holds multiple patents validated by customers such as Alcoa, America West Airlines, and Honeywell.
	www.informationweek.com /showArticle.jhtml?articleID=19400161 (705 words)

	Saqqara Technology Company Profile (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Saqqara Technology Ltd was founded in 1994 as a Multimedia software and title developer.
		Saqqara has substantial experience in graphical interface implementation and data handling for text and media intensive applications.
		Saqqara also offers a full range of services, from graphic design through to full product development and integration.
	www.saqqarat.co.uk /info (147 words)

	The Saqqara Geophysical Survey Project
		Saqqara lies on the edge of the Sahara desert looking down over the floodplain of the Nile to the South of Cairo, south-west of the three pyramids at Giza.
		The story of Saqqara is a long one, and one which lends itself to comparisons with an Indiana Jones movie.
		In 2002 and 2003, the Saqqara team did extensive geophysical surveys of the area and discovered many tomb structures and a complicated area of structures which could be large tombs subdivided by smaller burials, workshops or living quarters.
	www.glasgowmuseums.com /venue/showProject.cfm?venueid=1&itemid=34 (2104 words)

	Saqqara (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Saqqara is an immense necropolis just south of Cairo and west of the ancient city of Memphis of which very little remains.
		Around the northern-most of Saqqara pyramids is that of the 6th Dynasty Pharaoh Teti.
		Adjacent to the pyramid are the mastabas of his officials, some of whom had marvelous relieves created for themselves.
	www.aldokkan.com /geography/saqqara.htm (204 words)

	What is Saqqara? (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Saqqara (also spelt Sakkara and several other ways) is a pyramid in Egypt, near the River Nile just south of Cairo.
		I first visited Saqqara when I stayed in Cairo for a few days in 1980, prior to flying in a Douglas DC-3 to Hurghada on the western Red Sea coast.
		I had not yet seen the Giza pyramids but was astonished at the size of the Zoser pyramid and the complexity of all the tombs and ancient remains all around the site.
	www.saqqara.demon.co.uk /saqqara.htm (242 words)

	Step Pyramid at Saqqara, Egypt \| Imhotep \| King Zoser
		Around 2650 B.C., King Zoser of Egypt commissioned a royal burial chamber to be built at Saqqara, near Memphis.
		Thousands of limestone blocks from the quarries at Awsan were transported 450 miles from Aswan to Saqqara.
		It is very likely that Imhotep was the architect who planned Egypt's first large-scale stone monument: the Step Pyramid at Saqqara.
	www.padfield.com /2002/saqqara.html (149 words)

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