Abu Sir

Area is located south of Giza, Abusir and northern Saqqara region name was derived from the word "Boo Auxerre", meaning "place of God, Auxerre," and is famous for the area of ​​Abu Sair, with all its sun temples of the kings of the Fifth Dynasty pyramids and some of the kings of this family and the Pyramids:

Pyramid and the pyramid of a group Sahora Air Kara and a group F pyramid pyramid of Ra and Ra Ni and walk, and will be displayed to the sun temple of King Ne secret of Ra:

Temple of the Sun (Ra Ni walk):

The sun temple of King Ne secret of Ra as one of the models of temples God has appeared in the construction of temples to the sun god Ra from the Fifth Dynasty after Ola Chan god Ra since the Fourth Dynasty and the back of the word "Ra" in the names of most of the kings such as the paddle of Ra, Khafre and Mnkawora.

And tells us about Cetkar Papyrus and the onset of kings loyal to the sun god Ra and the beginning of this family of five, and how the King Hbsskaf Stay away from Giza. And has not built his tomb in the form of a pyramid because the pyramid shape symbolizes the sun god Ra, and chose Saqqara where his tomb was built as a terrace called "Pharaoh's bench."

The Temple of the Sun planning differed from the other temples because the worship of the sun requires that the lead in broad daylight and it is not necessary to the existence of a closed room Kkds Holies where the statue of the god is placed.

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Saqqara

First, the site :
It is located about 25 km south of Giza, which was one of the cemeteries within the capital and most notably Memphis.

Second, the label :
As for naming different views and opinion is the first Saqqara so named because perhaps derived from the name of the dead god Deus sugar people of Memphis, who was worshiped and the second opinion is a lie adjacent to the area known as Saqqara has been designated by the same name as the village.
Saqqara area was divided into parts:
Northern part - Middle part - western part - the Taaty pyramid - the pyramid of Unas area

Saqqara archaeological contents:
1 - North Cemetery two families of some of the kings of the first and the second was built of brick raw (brick).
2 - Msatab to some members of the Old Kingdom.
3 - Number of the pyramids of the kings of the Fifth Dynasty pyramid of Userkaf pyramid and the pyramid of Unas Jdkra and the first record of the Pyramid Texts on the walls of the burial chamber and continued his book Pyramid Texts after him in all Ohermat the kings of the Sixth Dynasty.
4 - King terrace Hbsskaf last kings of the Fourth Dynasty.
5 - Group of King Zoser pyramid and the pyramid of King Sekhemkhet of the Third Dynasty.
6 - Serapeum is a special place of the Apis king of this era in which they worship it was dedicated to him at his death a special place where embalming and bury him, and he was a private cemetery called the Serapeum and had a special temple at Memphis.
7 - the second pyramid and the pyramid of Bouap flexible Ra of the Sixth Dynasty.

A total of Djoser pyramid:
1 - the outer wall of a Pyramid.
2 - the entrance hall
3 - yard love dam
4 - Pyramid
5 - mortuary temple
6 - basement

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Dahshur

 
Dahshur area is located at a distance of 11 km to the south of Saqqara, a cemetery which includes the entire first pyramid in Egypt, a pyramid of King Sneferu north.
Area, consisting of Dahshur Alohermat the following:
1 - South of the pyramid of King Sneferu.
2 - Northern Pyramid of King Snefru.
3 - the pyramid of King Amenemhat II.
4 - the pyramid of King Senusret III.
5 - the pyramid of King Amenemhat III.
Will be displayed for the pyramid of King Sneferu the first king of the Fourth Dynasty and best known of this king titles indicate a good heart, such as "King plus" and "Merciful King", and the Bent Pyramid is a group of complete sets.
Bent has built for himself Bdhishor pyramids, one in the south, known as the southern pyramid, or the curve of the pyramid and the other in the north, known as the pyramid or the Northern Red Pyramid.

South of the pyramid:
Called the curve of the pyramid or the pyramid broken ribs or the southern pyramid, this pyramid represents the penultimate stage of the development phases of the cemetery property of the pyramid until the full bench, the right hierarchical pyramid rest of the group consisting of:
- Temple Valley
- The way the rising
- Mortuary Temple
- South of the pyramid
Along the base of the pyramid of about 188 m and a height of about 101 m and has the inclination angles automated angle of Rule 31 45 and the other at mid-height, while the inclination angle changed and became in 2143 has led to the refraction of the pyramid and this pyramid is the only one with corners.
Contains this pyramid on the two entrances, the entrance in the north and another in the west, and the entrance in the north is located on the Alatvaa about 11.80 pm and leads the entrance to the Mamrhabt length of 79.53 and a height of 1.10 m and ends with the corridor in ways that horizontal its roof gradual rise 12.30 and then up to the burial chamber bottom deeply carved in the rock 25 m below the surface of the ground.
Brings the second entrance to the pyramid on the west side of the level of the earth's surface at about 33.32 pm and this leads to the entrance corridor length of 64.43 m and a height of 1.10 m.

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Giza

Giza Governorate is located in the northern part of the Nile Valley at the branch of the Nile Delta and configured. Giza and the name was mentioned in the Arabic heritage books that the name means place of "passing" or the subject of moving from one place to another, and this site is the place of today's vector or cross it from north to south on the grounds it in the site average.
Giza province has the largest cemeteries of ancient Egypt, the period from Abu Rawash north to Meidum (Beni Suef) south of Giza and a large number of archeological sites are:
1 - Abu Rawash
2 - Giza
3 - Angle-Arian
4 - Abu Sir
5 - Saqqara
6 - Dahshur
7 - Allst
8 - Atfih
9 - Memphis
10 - crematorium built safety and other
The Giza Plateau of the most famous archaeological sites because it includes the Great Pyramid and the Sphinx and a large number of pyramids and tombs of the royal family and state officials and workers.

Area, consisting of eleven Giza pyramid are:
1 - Pyramid of Cheops and the three pyramids of queens and a small pyramid of worship.
2 - the pyramid of Khafre and the pyramid of small
3 - Pyramid Mnkawora and three pyramids

Pyramid of Khufu:
Khufu was the son of King Sneferu and the mother is the Queen "Hetepheres" Daughter of the King, "Hony" The Last King of the Third Dynasty, and most likely that the Queen Hetepheres was buried near a pyramid Snfr In Dahshur, but was able to thieves access to her grave in the days of the rule of her son Khufu of this was moved from the rest of the funerary furnishings of Dahshur buried again in the bottom of a deep well east of the Great Pyramid, The Mummy Queen and her jewelery thieves fled, and still the rest of the funerary furnishings preserved in the Egyptian Museum.
The Roman historian Diodoros when an update on the pyramid of King Cheops, the Egyptians hated the builders of the pyramids to the extent that made them looting and smashing the large tombs of the Kings mummies, as well as some travelers said the Greeks and Romans that the king Khufu was unjust and that he used forced labor to build his pyramid.
And by reference to the written documents we know them that King Cheops was a king holy was his subjects are happy to participate in the establishment of its buildings timeless and of course, the pyramid, and we know that the religious rituals of King Khufu continued centuries long, In the Ptolemaic period there are signs indicating the continued presence of the priests of Khufu.
In response to the speech that King Khufu scoffed at all the possibilities of the country in building a pyramid and that the economic situation worsened in his reign that it is not reasonable to be a king Cheops ruler and leave the country in a stable economic situation has allowed the construction of the daughter of Khafre Pyramid II and his pyramid.
If the economic conditions in the reign of Cheops has worsened to build the pyramid of one, how was the economic conditions the time of King Sneferu, who paid the construction of pyramids him at Dahshur, said Herodotus, Greek historian that the work in the pyramid of Cheops lasted 20 years and work on the way upward alone lasted 10 years, any that the period of building the pyramid and the way the rising 30-year-old, and to respond to the words of Herodotus has stated papyri documentaries for the rule of King Khufu, 23, only, also found in one of the rooms mitigate the five above the burial chamber on the writings remember the year the seventeenth of the reign of Khufu.

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