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Definition of Saqqara

1. Noun. A town in northern Egypt; site of the oldest Egyptian pyramids.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Saqqara

Literary usage of Saqqara

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. To-day on the Nile by Harry Westbrook Dunning (1905)
"saqqara can easily be visited from Cairo. With a tug and by sailing at night, if safe and necessary, the trip from Assiut to Aswan and return can be made in ..."

2. Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians: Including Their Private Life by John Gardner Wilkinson (1842)
"... near the modern village of saqqara, is a tomb, with two large vaulted chambers, whose roofs display in every part the name and sculptures of the second ..."

3. Manners and customs of the ancient Egyptians: Including Their Private Life by John Gardner Wilkinson (1837)
"... near the modern village of saqqara, is a tomb, with two large vaulted chambers, whose roofs display in every part the name and sculptures of the second ..."

4. Topography of Thebes, and General View of Egypt: Being a Short Account of by John Gardner Wilkinson (1835)
"J Mr. Salt has derived the name of saqqara from the title of the deity of Memphis.—Vide Herod, iii. 37. ..."

5. Egypt by Eva Ambros (2001)
"THE "NECROPOLIS OF saqqara A field of pyramids stretches for several kilometers along the edge of the desert to the south of Giza. ..."

6. Athletics and Mathematics in Archaic Corinth: The Origins of the Greek Stadion by David Gilman Romano (1993)
"The few extant repre- pture and reliefs from us no more information From the Old Kingdom in Egypt there is evidence for athletics from the site of saqqara. ..."

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