Serapeum of Saqqara

I enjoyed the experience of discovering such an amazing place and I was impressed by the quality of the restoration of the monuments, I would like to go back again to discover the whole area.
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The Place is very far away from Giza . I just took an Uber from Giza and told him to wait for me . End up paying like 20 euro .

The place needs a car . Cause it’s huge . You have to pay a ticket to enter and a ticket for the car and a ticket for photography.

I was interested at the Serapeum.

We took the car near the entrance. And I walked few meters to the entry. The place is Amazing .

If you go there you need to try the Coffee from that Gypsy Woman . She makes amazing coffee .

The Serapeum is an underground labyrinth that to this day defies explanation. There are 24 giant granite boxes that no one knows how they made them, muchless brought them into these narrow isles they rest in. The stone work precision and smooth surface finish is incredible, with the top surfaces flat to within 0.001 of an inch (that's about a hair split 4 times). You can see yourself in the reflection they are so well polished. The square inside corners and flatness should be considered a wonder of the world because the technology to do this is not understood and would be difficult even with today's technology to say the least. These boxes are made of granite which is incredibly hard and MUCH harder than sandstone which most of the pyramids are built with (there is some incredible granite inside the pyramids which would require its own post that also defy explanation). The granite was brought to this location from hundreds of miles away. I had to see these with my own eyes and they weigh 100's of tons. They are believed to be sarcophaguses for important egyptians or bulls but nothing was found in them. A Few of them have hieroglyphics scratched into them but many (including me) believe they were added later as they are chicken scratch compared to the absolute precision of the boxes. Whoever built the boxes would have wanted to kill the people that scratched them with such crude work if you look at them closely.

There are no temples or anything around them, personally I believe this was a chemical processing plant and this was a factory of some sort. They look more like something that would contain a chemical process with hermetically sealed covers heavy enough to contain pressure. Difficult to see from the pictures but there are steps on the lids that prevent them from sliding sideways so you have to lift them straight up before removing them. One of the idiot early archaeologists actually blew one up with dynamite when he found them because he couldn't open them (you can see in one of the pics). You can see a lot of damage on the edges, I'm sure from greedy raiders trying to find treasure.

There is a huge unfinished box & cover that they left in position and you can see in the pictures. This probably means they were finished in the chamber or in final position which is mind boggling. How could they do this without machines? Just crazy!

Absolutely incredible!

Amazing place.. no idea how the massive boxes were placed down there.

This place is simply incredible, a must see when visiting Egypt right up there with the pyramids. The hieroglyphs on a few of the sarcophagi are clearly not from the same people who built these, the original work was perfect.

Do you know how they can make 100 Ton coffins down in this place
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Great place to visit, probably better than the pyramids of Giza. The only caveat is that you do need a car to transport you through the different locations in the area. A taxi internally is available or you can use your own.

Had the pleasure of visiting the Seapeum in October of 2021. This place is completely and totally amazing and mystifying. Make sure to bring a flashlight or headlamp with you, And Bring lots of Egyptian pounds or US dollars for tips( Backsheesh) make sure to wear sunblock, have a good hat and bring plenty of water. You can walk to The Serapeum, there are locals around the parking area With donkeys you can ride to the location.

You can’t miss this place. Just make sure you have enough water, a hat and if possible, someone to drive you around the different locations within the complex.
Definitely, buy tickets for Serapeum, it’s where the big black toms are.

A must see! As special as the great pyramid. Multiple 100tons granite boxes carved into shape with astonishing precision. Polished. Coffins ⚰ for bulls they say. To my opinion BS. Pre dynastic. Pre younger dryas. Ancient machining pur sang. 🔨 hammer and chisel created they say……more BS

Incredible place of Saqqarah, that worth the visit

In the middle of nowhere, close to pyramides, there is a huge cave that was used to keep sacred cows and bulls?! In their own sarcophage. Impressive. The sarcophages are huge, heavy and come from 1000 km away.

you must visit this place full of mystery, inside there are some huge sarcophagus. it is not crowded and costs 150 Le

Extraordinary and fascinating. A highlight being the sarcophagus in the middle of a passageway, apparently left by would-be thieves in the distant past when they realised they couldn't actually get it out. The thing is enormous, that they moved it at all is remarkable, that they moved it so far without having established that they could get it out, is astonishing.

Amazing place for people who like to discover ancient Egypt and architectural stuff that they mate. It's cheaper than other places like pyramids of Giza, but it has all the benefits and the most interesting different stuff to see in one place.

Serapeum is an underground structure with tunnels, inside of tunnel plenty of big granite boxes that are really heavy made from granite. Some of the boxes have heroglifs on them site. They are made with high precision, and the big question is how do they put this big boxes inside the small tunnels.

You have to be there to see them because it's hard to actually show them in the pictures.

Nearby or three different pyramid with different shapes, so you can see three Styles in one place witches better than in the Great Pyramid of Giza.

One of the most exciting and interesting sightseeing to visit with 26 sarcophagus in granite stone with more than 100 tones in weight for some of them

The Serapeum of Saqqara was an ancient Egyptian burial ground in Memphis for sacred bulls of the Apis religion. The bulls were thought to represent avatars of the god Ptah, who would become immortal after death as Osiris-Apis, a name that eventually evolved into Userhapi () in Coptic and Serapis () in Hellenistic times.

At least sixty Apis are known to have been interred at the Serapeum over a period of approximately 1400 years, from the New Kingdom to the Ptolemaic Period. The original burials were discovered in solitary tombs, but as the cult grew in popularity, underground passages were built to connect the successive burial chambers. The dedication of commemorative stone tablets with dates relating to the life and death of the god was one of the cult's activities.

The Serapeum is a great tomb that contains so many coffins ⚰ of animals that were used in ancient Egypt. Some of the coffins are made of granite and some of them are made of basalt. The coffins are so huge and one of them has the well known drawings of ancient Egypt along its wall.

A place of historical value as much as the Giza Pyramid.
a living museum.
I hope you visit.

Amazing historical and cultural location that everyone should visit once in a lifetime