Saqqara and Memphis

This morning we visited the older pyramids of Saqqara and Dahshur. These were all older than those at Giza and basically show the architects working out how to make a pyramid.

The first was a the Step Pyramid (2700 BC) and is the oldest surviving stone building in the world. The second was one of the earliest “failures” was the Bent Pyramid (2600 BC) where they got the angle wrong and it was never used. But the third “Red Pyramid” (2575 BC) was perfect and provided the model for those at Giza which followed.

Afterwards we went to the museum of Memphis the early capital of EgyptRead more