#The Serapeum of Saqqara

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Sarcophagus in the burial place of the sacred bulls of the Apis cult in the Serapeum of Saqqara, Egypt

British vintage postcard

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Las Evidencias de Civilización Prehistórica más Avanzada que la Actual HD

Índice de Contenidos: 

00:00:00 Introducción 

00:00:38 EL OSIRION 

00:10:05 EL PILAR DJED 

00:12:05 ZAWYET EL ARYAN 

00:18:36 EL PÁJARO DE SAQQARA 

00:21:56 EL SERAPIUM DE SAQQARA 

00:27:08 EL DISCO DE ESQUISTO 

00:30:08 EL TEMPLO DEL VALLE DE KHAFREN 

00:34:04 La DAGA de TUTANKAMON 

00:39:21 El CATACLISMO de TANIS 

00:43:29 El OBELISCO Inacabado de ASWAN 

00:48:17 La LUZ de DENDERA 

00:51:33 Entradas SECRETAS de la ESFINGE 

01:00:19 CAJAS de GRANITO 

01:10:48 Escalera de ABU RAWASH 

01:13:09 Las ESCALERAS DERRETIDAS 

01:15:23 ABU GHURAB 

01:21:14 Los JEROGLÍFICOS de ABIDOS 

01:23:37 Artefactos Fabricados a Maquina 

01:28:00 El Complejo de GIZA 

01:54:05 Una Civilización Prehistórica de Tecnologías superior a la Actual 

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Wood statue of the lioness goddess Sekhmet

Late Period, ca. 664-332 BC. From Temple of Nectanebo, Serapeum of Saqqara. Now in the Louvre. N 5209

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Serapeum, Saqqara

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Saqqara – Where Egypt’s Timeless Soul Lives On

Hidden beyond Cairo’s buzzing streets lies a quieter, older mystery: Saqqara — the ancient necropolis of Egypt’s first capital, Memphis.

Here stands the awe-inspiring Step Pyramid of Djoser, the first pyramid ever built, rising from the desert like a forgotten stairway to the sky. Designed by Imhotep, this revolutionary monument is over 4,700 years old — older than the Great Pyramid of Giza itself.

But Saqqara is not just one monument — it's an entire city of the dead. You'll find beautifully decorated tombs, underground chambers, the mystical Serapeum, and even pyramids filled with ancient hieroglyphic spells carved for eternity.

Whether you're an archaeology lover or just a traveler craving something raw and authentic — Saqqara is Egypt like you’ve never seen it before.

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Ra in his night form, Ba of the Creator. Tomb of Ramesses II in Serapeum of Saqqara — Louvre Museum in Paris (E80).

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Almost everyone has seen this image of the Seated Scribe. Located on the upper floor of the Department of Egyptian Antiquities, this is the most famous of unknown figures. We know nothing about the person portrayed: neither his name, nor title, nor even the exact period during which he lived. Nevertheless, this statue never fails to impress visitors discovering it for the first time.

A specific posture

The Louvre's scribe, known as the "Seated Scribe", is indeed sitting cross-legged, his right leg crossed in front of his left. The white kilt, stretched over his knees, serves as a support. He is holding a partially rolled papyrus scroll in his left hand. His right hand must have held a brush, now missing. The most striking aspect of this sculpture is the face, particularly the elaborately inlaid eyes: they consist of a piece of red-veined white magnesite, in which a piece of slightly truncated rock crystal was placed. The front part of the crystal was carefully polished. The back side was covered with a layer of organic material, creating the color of the iris and also probably serving as an adhesive. The entire eye was then held in the socket by two large copper clips welded on the back. A line of black paint defines the eyebrows. The hands, fingers, and fingernails are sculpted with a remarkable delicacy. His chest is broad and the nipples are marked by two wooden dowels. The statue was cleaned in 1998, although the process merely reduced the wax overpainting. This restoration brought out the well-conserved ancient polychromy.

An unknown figure

The semicircular base on which the figure sits must have originally fit into a larger base that carried his name and titles, such as the base for the statue of Prince Setka, exhibited in room 22 of the Louvre. This base is missing, and the context of the discovery does not provide any additional information. According to the archeologist Auguste Mariette, who found the work, the statue of the scribe was apparently discovered in Saqqara on 19 November 1850, to the north of the Serapeum's line of sphinxes. But the precise location is not known; unfortunately, the documents concerning these excavations were published posthumously, the excavation journals had been lost, and the archives were scattered between France and Egypt. Furthermore, the site had been pillaged and ransacked, and no information concerning the figure's identity could be provided. Some historians have tried to link it to one of the owners of the statues discovered at the same time. The most convincing of these associates the scribe to Pehernefer. Certain stylistic criteria, such as the thin lips, which was unusual, the form of the torso, and the broad chest could support this theory. The statue of Pehernefer dates from the 4th Dynasty. This is an additional argument in favor of an earlier dating for this statue, which has sometimes been dated to the 6th Dynasty. Another argument supporting this date is that "writing" scribes were mostly created in the 4th and early 5th Dynasties; after this period, most scribes were portrayed in "reading" poses.

A scribe at work

The scribe is portrayed at work, which is unusual in Egyptian statuary. Although no king was ever portrayed in this pose, it seems that it was originally used for members of the royal family, such as the king's sons or grandsons, as was the case for the sons of Didufri (4th Dynasty), who were represented in this position.

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General Huy Headcanons

Some Prince of Egypt head canons for my favourite sillyguy magical man informed by historical and literary accounts of Ancient Egyptian culture, the Tanakh, and apocrypha.

Huy's name is for the girls—and the boys. It’s unisex!

Hui or Huy was an ancient Egyptian name, frequently a nickname for Amenhotep. Famous bearers include: Huy, priestess during the Eighteenth dynasty, mother-in-law of Thutmose III; Huy, High Priest of Ptah during the reign of Ramesses II; Huy, viceroy of Kush during the reign of Ramesses II. [source]

Huy was actually a high priest of Ptah.

Huy was a High Priest of Ptah during the reign of Ramesses II. Huy is known from two shabtis (now in the Louvre) dedicated at an Apis burial in the Serapeum of Saqqara. The Apis burials are dated to years 16 and 30.[1] Huy may have served as High priest of Ptah from approximately year 2 to year 20 of the reign of Ramesses II. Huy was succeeded by Pahemnetjer. In pop culture, One of the advisors to Pharaoh in The Prince of Egypt (1998) is named Huy. [source]

Huy is based on the actual Egyptian magician in the Book of Exodus/Shmot who is named Jambres.

Jannes and Jambres, two legendary Egyptian sorcerers whose names appear in various sources as the adversaries of Moses. Jewish tradition seems to identify them with the sorcerers mentioned in Exodus 7:11... The names also appear in pagan Greek and Roman literature. Both Pliny (Natural History, 30:11) and Apuleius (Apologia, 90) mention the name of Jannes only, the former including him in a list of Jewish sorcerers the first of whom is Moses, while the latter names him immediately after Moses in a list of famous magicians. Both Jannes and Jambres… are mentioned and discussed in detail by Numenius, the neo-Pythagorean philosopher (quoted in Eusebius, Praeparatio Evangelica, 9:8; cf. Origines, Contra Celsum, 4:51). They are described as Egyptian priests who excelled in wizardry at the period of the "expulsion" of the Jews from Egypt and as having been considered by the Egyptians capable of rescuing their country from the disasters brought upon it by Musaeus (Moses). [source]

Huy was full-time as opposed to part-time since he was the high priest.

With the exception of the high priest, most priests worked only part-time.  The priesthood was divided into "hours" and served only one month out of every four. The rest of the time, they lived their normal lives in society, often working as mid-level bureaucrats. [source]

He lived in the temple complex.

During their religious service, priests lived within the complex of the temples of their deity. [source]

His beard is an accessory! He shaves completely every 3 days, but he can still wear hair as a fashion choice. Slay!

Oddly, though, they also retained a fascination for facial hair, or at least the appearance of having some. The Egyptians took shorn hair and sheep's wool and fashioned them into wigs and fake beards — which, even more oddly, were sometimes worn by Egyptian queens as well as kings [source: Dunn]. The fake beards had various shapes, to indicate the dignity and social position of their wearer. Ordinary citizens wore small fake beards about 2 inches (5 centimeters) long, while kings wore their phony whiskers to extravagant lengths and had them trimmed to be square at the end. [source]

His shoes were woven and made of papyrus.

Footwear was the same for both sexes. It consisted of coiled sewn sandals of leatherwork, or for the priestly class, papyrus. Since Egyptians were usually barefoot, sandals were worn on special occasions or at times when their feet might get hurt. [source]

Huy has his own apocryphon that was said to have been written by one of Pharaoh’s officials. Surviving fragments of this apocryphon tells of the adventures of him and his brother. He survives all the plagues, runs away with the Hebrews during the red sea adventure, and converts to Judaism. He has a sad backstory because he has to bury his mother and brother.

Jannes names Jambres as his successor and entrusts him with a secret document. He warns him not to accompany the Egyptian army when it marches against the Hebrews… The Egyptian army is drowned in the Red Sea while pursuing the Hebrews, but Jambres stayed away. Jannes's condition worsens and the family returns to their estate. [source]

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Serapeum's name makes more sense once I've actually woken her up. TL DR It's a temple to a fusion god (created to legitimize an empire) made of ritually sacrificed bulls and the god of the dead and rebirth. The earliest serapeum had a daughter library of the Library of Alexandria.

From Wikipedia:

A serapeum is a temple or other religious institution dedicated to the syncretic Greco-Egyptian deity Serapis, who combined aspects of Osiris and Apis in a humanized form that was accepted by the Ptolemaic Greeks of Alexandria.

Serapis or Sarapis is a Graeco-Egyptian god. A syncretic deity derived from the worship of the Egyptian Osiris and Apis, Serapis was extensively popularized in the third century BC on the orders of Greek Pharaoh Ptolemy I Soter, as a means to unify the Greek and Egyptian subjects of the Ptolemaic Kingdom.

The cultus of Serapis was spread as a matter of deliberate policy by subsequent Ptolemaic kings. Serapis continued to increase in popularity during the Roman Empire, often replacing Osiris as the consort of Isis in temples outside Egypt. Alongside his Egyptian roots he gained attributes from other deities, such as chthonic powers linked to the Greek Hades and Demeter, and benevolence derived from associations with Dionysus.

The Serapeum of Alexandria in the Ptolemaic Kingdom was an ancient Greek temple built by Ptolemy III Euergetes (reigned 246–222 BC) and dedicated to Serapis, who was made the protector of Alexandria, Egypt. There are also signs of Harpocrates. It has been referred to as the daughter of the Library of Alexandria.

Ptolemy I Soter ordered the construction of the first temple dedicated to Serapis. It appears that it was a simple and modest building. Ptolemy introduced the cult of this god. Ptolemy III expanded it, at the same time as he ordered the construction of the Library of Alexandria. Starting with the Roman emperor Claudius (emperor from 41 AD to 54 AD), the temple evolved and took on the dimensions of a large sanctuary, until it reached 185 by 92 meters. In this way, the Alexandrian acropolis was embellished with a series of buildings: in addition to the aforementioned temple and library, the temple of Anubis, that of Isis, the necropolis of sacred animals, the obelisks of Seti I and the great column of Serapis, which was still standing in the 3rd century, were added.

The Serapeum of Saqqara was the ancient Egyptian burial place for sacred bulls of the Apis cult at Memphis. It was believed that the bulls were incarnations of the god Ptah, which would become immortal after death as Osiris-Apis. a name which evolved to Serapis.

Ptah is an Egyptian creator god who conceived the world and brought it into being through the creative power of speech. A hymn to Ptah dating to the Twenty-second Dynasty of Egypt says Ptah "crafted the world in the design of his heart," and the Shabaka Stone, from the Twenty-Fifth Dynasty, says Ptah "gave life to all the gods and their kas as well, through this heart and this tongue."

ka=soul, essence of life

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Exploring the Saqqara Pyramids: Egypt’s Ancient Marvels

Saqqara Pyramids Southern to Cairo Egypt It is home to some of the oldest Pyramids; This site is packed with the discovery of early Egyptian civilization and creations. Saqqara is the most important cemetery site of Memphis, the first capital of Egypt and it houses the oldest pyramids in the world associated with a large number of tombs and other archaeological structures unearthed from the early dynastic period to the Roman era.

The greatest attraction of Saqqara is the Step Pyramid of Djoser; it is considered to be the world’s very first pyramid. This magnificent six-step funerary complex was also created by Imhotep during the 27th Century BC– this funerary complex most marked the succession from the usual flat mastaba tombs to the more befitting pyramidal structures. It rises 62 meters high; it remains one of the greatest achievements of the engineers of the ancient world.

Beside the pyramid of Djoser, Saqqara is full of numerous historical values. The Pyramid of Unas brings the earliest religious writing ever known & consists of spells & prayers for the safe conduct of the pharaoh to the other world. Other interesting archeological attractions are Tomb of Ti where many masterpieces of carving depicting scenes of daily life have found their place, and the Serapeum – a subterranean labyrinth of granite tombs for the bulls, which were addressed as gods in this country.

As we have already indicated in our survey of the Saqqara Complex, its significance is defined by the fact that all time horizons of ancient Egypt are related to it. Of course, there’s the Step Pyramid, but there are also remains and graves from the Old, Middle and New Kingdoms and it was really great to be able to see how Egypt evolved over the time.

Saqqara, therefore, stands out as a must-visit archaeological site because of its remarkably well-preserved site, the peacefulness and historical background of the region it occupies, being a desert. To be walking next to such an important landmark such as Djoser’s pyramid, or strolling down the level of underground tombs means waking up Egypt’s architectural and historical possibilities. Come and explore this unique and fascinating historic place Learn how to organize your trip here.

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Discover the Wonders of Ancient Egypt: Day Tours of Göiza Pyramids, Saqqara and Memphis

Any travel to the Giza Pyramids, Saqqara, and Memphis is a trip back in time for a sneak preview into the land of the unknown civilization. Everything at each site attests to the generators, individual or collective, of one of the greatest civilizations of the world.

Start your exploration at Giza Plateu that hosts Three Pyramids: Quhara, Khafre and Menkaure. Learn about the last of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World by visiting the Great Pyramid and get dazzled by the mysteries of Sphinx which beseeches royalty and might holding the gate of these timeless structures.

After that, proceed to Saqqara, a burial site which abounds with the first pyramid ever built in the world – the Step Pyramid of Djoser. Also known as the South Serapeum, this work of art belongs to an architect of a different class, Imhotep, and it is more of a transitionary piece from mastaba’s to the more advanced pyramids. Saqqara tombs display reliefs and Showing everyday scenes and painting of Ancient Egyptian beliefs.

End your tour at Memphis, the historical records have it as the first capital of the United Kingdom of Egypt for centuries. Once being a professionally powerful and culturally rich city, Memphis is now turned into an archeological site with stunning artefacts some of which are a huge statue of Ramses II and an alabaster Sphinx.

This tour is very beneficial as it provides the ability to combine architectural marvel with historical significance of Egypt. No matter whether you like a history or not, these places are so magical that everyone will remember the time spent there.

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Head of a priest (The Boston Green Head)

This head of a priest, called the Boston Green Head, is the best portrait sculpture known from the Late Period. The face is wonderfully lifelike and individual. Light wavy lines indicate the furrows of his brow, and crow’s feet radiate from the outer corners of his eyes.

The top of his nose has a pronounced bony ridge. Deep creases run from the edges of his nose to the corners of his mouth. Thin lips and a downturned mouth impart an expression of strength and determination. The slight wart on his left cheek is unique in Egyptian art and also introduces an element of asymmetry dear to the artists of the Late Period.

Late Period, 30th Dynasty, ca. 380-332 BC. From Serapeum of Saqqara. Now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 04.1749

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Serapeum, Saqqara

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The legendary burial that challenged

reason, logic, the laws of physics

and imagination.

It is the burial of the Serapeum in

the Saqqara area in Giza.

Underground burial at the bottom of

the mountain carved into the rocks.

It is long tunnels and corridors with

a length of about 300 metres,

very strange, beauty and splendor.

This burial was built to be a burial place

for the Apis calf.

This burial consists of a large hall

and a small hall.

This burial was discovered by the French scientist Mariette in 1848

This burial contains 24 sarcophagus

of very strong stones and rocks

such as granite, basalt and quartz

that come from Aswan quarries

from hundreds of kilometers away.

The first question:

How did they transport these rocks

from such long distances?

second question:

How was each sarcophagus made of

only one piece, weighing 70 tons,

and the lid of the coffin weighing 30 tons,

with a total weight of 100 tons?

How did they make it out of just one piece?

The third question:

How did they move those sarcophagus

into the burial through a door that is 3.2 meters wide?

the fourth question:

How did they get these sarcophagus

into these corridors?

Note that one coffin in order to move

only needs at least 500 strong men.

The fifth question:

How were they able with primitive

machines to sculpt the sarcophagus

from the inside so smooth that we found inside at an angle of 90 degrees with

very high accuracy.

Sixth question:

How did they dig these passages in

this way with a technique that resembles

the giant machines of today, such as

tunnel boring machines.

Seventh question:

How this was dug into the bottom of the mountain and rocks without lighting

or electricity.

Was the digging done by the light

of the flames?

Didn't the oxygen burn underground

and everyone die?

How did this happen?

The ancient Egyptian civilization is characterized by secrets, mysteries and surprises.

I can only say that the ancient Egyptians

had techniques and sciences that we

have not reached until today.

The burial of the Serapeum is considered

an underground miracle at the foot

of the mountain.

References:

- Auguste Mariette, Le Sérapéum de Memphis, Paris

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A Serapeum is a temple dedicated to the deity Serapis, and the one in the village of Saquarra is among the most awe-inspiring Serapeums in the whole of Egypt. Saquarra is a 30-minute drive from the capital. While there isn’t any direct metro line connecting Saqqara and Cairo, it’s possible to stop mid-way and then take a taxi via Hadayek Helwan straight to the village.