Dashour, Sakkara Tour and Memphis

• Memphis and Sakkara

  2 hoursAdmission Ticket Not Included

  Be a witness on the first capital of untied Egypt founded by King Narmer in 3100 BC, Memphis. Pay a visit to the Memphis Museum to see the colossal statue of Ramses II and the second biggest sphinx of Queen Hatshepsut.

• Saqqara (Sakkara) Pyramids

  2 hoursAdmission Ticket Not Included

  Visit Saqqara, a major part of Memphis’s massive necropolis. In Saqqara, you will see one of the major archaeological sites in Egypt, the Complex of King Djoser, dating back to the third dynasty (around 2630 BC). This complex is considered the first complete stone construction in ancient Egyptian history, and it contains the oldest stone structure in the Pharaonic civilization, the step pyramid, built by the engineer Imhotep. Then you proceed to discover another kind of pharaonic pyramids like the King Teti pyramid of the sixth dynasty. Unlike Giza pyramids, these pyramids contain texts called the pyramids texts as a guide for the king in his pass to the afterlife. After that, go to the burial site of the most ancient Noble Egyptians dating back to the old and new kingdoms and visit Kagemni tomb to see the inscriptions showing daily life habits in ancient Egypt.

• Dahshur

  2 hoursAdmission Ticket Free

  Then move to another ancient Egyptian city. Do you want to know how the ancient Egyptians built their pyramids? In Dahshur, you will see the Bent pyramid belonging to King Sneferu of the fourth dynasty. This pyramid shows the trials of the ancient Egyptians to reach the complete pyramid. After that, move ahead to the first real complete pyramid in the ancient Egyptian civilization, the Red pyramid, showing the ingenuity of the ancient Egyptians. This pyramid belongs to king Sneferu too.