The most important cities in ancient Egypt - 3 - City (Saqqara)

 The most important cities in ancient Egypt

City (Saqqara)

It is the cemetery of the capital (Memphis), and the city (Saqqara) is located on the west bank of the Nile, about 25 km

South of the Giza Plateau; It is considered an open book whose pages tell the story of the Egyptian civilization

Throughout its invented ages, it is the only cemetery in all of Egypt that includes graves from the beginning

Egyptian history to its end. It also includes antiquities from the Greek and Roman eras

It also has tombs full of unique sights and inscriptions

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The history of the region goes back more than 3000 years, and the brightest era is the era

The old state when the first and most important revolution in the art of building and architecture occurred in the whole world, using the engineer

The genius (Imhotep) was the stone in the construction of King Djoser's funerary complex instead of mud bricks

Thus, he became the first person to erect an entire building of stone, and Saqqara includes about thirty pyramids

5 of them are dedicated to kings and the rest between doctrinal pyramids or pyramids for queens. And it continued

The importance of Saqqara until the late ages and the Greco-Roman era

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Sixteen other Egyptian kings also built pyramids in the city of Saqqara, in addition to some funerary monuments built by some senior officials in ancient Egypt, and the area extending from the pyramids of Giza to Dahshur through Saqqara was classified as a world heritage site by UNESCO in 1979

This confirms the importance of this city, historically and archaeologically, as well as its religious importance in relation to a god

The cemetery (Sucre), from which the current name Saqqara is derived