it’s an unparalleled opportunity for visitors to experience a journey through time. The museum’s 12 Main Galleries are designed to chronicle Egypt’s entire ancient history, showcasing over 15,000 artifacts from various dynasties and periods. These galleries provide a window into the evolution of Egyptian society, culture, religion, and royal legacies, from the earliest prehistoric times to the Graeco-Roman era. Divided into four primary sections, each gallery captures the essence of a specific period, offering you a remarkable insight into the ancient world.

• Prehistoric to Second Intermediate Period:
  Egypt saw the rise of divine kingship and pyramid building, but power later fragmented, with a strong focus on the afterlife.
• Middle Kingdom to Second Intermediate Period:
  Central power was restored, and funerary practices extended to the common people, reflecting a more inclusive religious system.
• New Kingdom:
  Egypt’s golden age of expansion, wealth, and grand temples under rulers like Ramesses II, with strong devotion to gods like Amun-Ra.
• Third Intermediate to Graeco-Roman Period:
  Despite foreign rule, Egyptian traditions blended with Greco-Roman culture, preserving core beliefs in gods and the afterlife.

Now it is time to visit the first pyramid ever built (Djoser Pyramid) or as we called the step pyramid by driving to the Sakkara area.

Witness: Saqqara (Step Pyramid)
Covering a 7km stretch of the Western Desert, Saqqara, the huge cemetery of ancient Memphis, was an active burial ground for more than 3500 years and is Egypt’s largest archaeological site. The necropolis is situated high above the Nile Valley’s cultivation area, and is the final resting place for deceased pharaohs and their families, administrators, generals and sacred animals. The name Saqqara is most likely derived from Sokar, the Memphite god of the dead.

Titi pyramid
It is entered through a descending corridor that leads to a horizontal corridor, leading to a front room. There are three chambers for storing burial tools on the left, and on the right, on the western side, is the burial chamber whose ceiling is decorated with golden stars on a dark blue background, which reflects the ancient Egyptian idea of the tomb as a microcosm of the universe.

Kagmni Tomb
The Kagmeni Tomb is located east of the Mery Roka cemetery and adjacent to it, and its door opens towards the east. The mastaba consists of seven rooms, most of which are rectangular in shape, all of which are engraved in relief, some of which have excellent views. The first room contains murals, which is a boat made of bundles of papyrus, in which Kamanji stands. The second room contains scenes representing fishing, and below these scenes are inscriptions representing types of fish.

The only remaining evidence of Memphis is this noteworthy open-air museum, built around a magnificent fallen colossal limestone statue of Ramses II. Its position on its back gives a great opportunity to inspect the carving up close – even the pharaoh’s nipples are very precise. Its twin is the statue that stood in Midan Ramses in Cairo until 2006 when it was moved to stand guard by the Grand Egyptian Museum construction site.