MEMPHIS THE OLD KINGDOM CAPITAL ANCIENT EGYPT ONLINE PHARAOHS EGYPTIAN GODS EGYPTIAN PYRAMIDS HIEROGLYPHICS TEMPLES MAPS EGYPT HISTORY THE QUEENS MUMMIES RELIGION CITIES REGIONS FACTS FOR KIDS EGYPT MEMPHIS THE ANCIENT EGYPTIAN THE CAPITAL THE HOME KING TUTANKHAMUN ESSENTIAL DEMISE THE RISE OF CHRISTIANITY FIRST CENTURY LOCATION THE SOUTH THE NILE RIVER DELTA THE WEST BANK SITS MILES SOUTH MODERN LAYS ON THE BORDER DIVIDES UPPER AND LOWER EGYPT THE PYRAMIDS OF GIZA THE GREAT SPHINX THE GREAT POPULAR BURIAL PLACE NOBLEMEN HISTORY OF KING FIRST NAME DERIVED BRICK POWERFUL PEOPLE CHOSE THE DESERT HERE THE CULT CREATOR GOD ANCIENT EGYPTIAN RELIGION PATRON COMMERCE ON THE NILE CANAL CONNECTED FRANCK IMPRESSION TEMPLE OF PTAH HONOR SEKHMET THEIR SON NEFERTEM LIE STOOD AS ONE CITY OF EIGHT DYNASTIES RISE THEBES NEW KINGDOM FUNCTION SAW BIRTH AMENHOTEP II SEIZED THE KING CAMBYSES II ALEXANDER THE PERSIANS KEPT HEADQUARTERS PLANNED TO THE NORTH EVENTUALLY THE FEW STRUCTURES DISMANTLED BUILD REMAINS RUINS ONE OF THEM STATUE OF RAMSES II ONCE MEASURING FEET DAMAGED LEGS MISSING THE TEMPLE SUSTAINED DAMAGE CENTURIES LYING IN THE OTHER ALABASTER SMALLER LESS SPHINX HIGH WEIGH JENNIFER SAQQARA NECROPOLIS PYRAMIDS STEP PYRAMID OF DJOSER 3RD DYNASTY KINGS PEOPLE AREA DESIGNATED WORLD HERITAGE SITE GREATEST STONE BUILDING THIRD DYNASTY DJOSER ADVISER IMHOTEP THE STONE BUILDING STEP PYRAMID ED YOURDON MONUMENTS PYRAMID COMPLEX TETI PEPI PEPI II NETJERIKHET SEKHEMKHET USERKAF TOMB CLICK HERE LEARN ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLORATION THE VILLAGE MIT LIES CLOSE THE RUINS THE ANCIENT CITY THE TURN THE 20TH CENTURY THE WALLS RUINED SEEN DISAPPEARED THE PYRAMIDS TOMBS TREASURE HUNTERS TRUE SCHOLARLY RESEARCH CONDUCTED HATHOR TIMELINE AUGUSTE MARIETTE DISCOVERED SERAPEUM SIR FLINDERS PETRIE UNCOVERED SECTION FOUNDATIONS OF PALACE MERNEPTAH UNIVERSITY OF WALTER BYRON EMERY FIRST DYNASTY NOTEWORTHY ARCHAEOLOGISTS ANDREW HERMANN JUNKER LUDWIG BORCHARDT 5TH DYNASTY ZAKARIA GONEIM UNKNOWN LAUER FUNERARY OBJECTS THE SEVEN WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD RULED 27TH DYNASTY THE WORD GREEK WORD THE EGYPTIAN 5TH CENTURY THE GREEK PORT ABANDONMENT ALSO KNOWN AS ANKH TAWY MEANING THE TWO LANDS LOWER EGYPT IN 265 APIS LIVING MANIFESTATIONS OF BURIED SERAPEUM OF SAQQARA COVERS FOUR SQUARE DIVIDED MENES RELATED CITE PAGE SITEMAP PRIVACY POLICY