The world of North Saqqâra

The recent excavations carried out by the Egypt Exploration Society at North Saqqâra have brought to light a remarkable community. The site lies on a plateau of the western desert some 20 km. south of Cairo, more or less opposite the ruins of Memphis, the ancient capital, and consists of a series of temples dedicated to various gods of the Egyptian pantheon. Each god was also represented by a sacred animal or animals, and these, whether bulls, cows, birds or baboons, were mummified and stacked in galleries beneath the surface of the desert. In the last centuries B.C. this area, known generally as the Serapeum, became the focus for pilgrimage from all over the known world; and through its written records, as much as in its physical remains, the Serapeum represents a unique link between archaeology and religion

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• Society and Economy

  Open Access•J K Davies•The Cambridge Ancient History…•1992

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• Alexander the Great Part 1

  Open Access•A B Bosworth•The Cambridge Ancient History…•1994

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• The Corinthian War

  Open Access•Robin Seager•The Cambridge Ancient History…•1994

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• Mediterranean communications

  Open Access•L Casson, L F Casson•The Cambridge Ancient History…•1994

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• Sources and their uses

  Open Access•Simon Hornblower•The Cambridge Ancient History…•1994

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• Epilogue

  Open Access•Simon Hornblower•The Cambridge Ancient History…•1994

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• Macedonian hegemony created

  Open Access•J R Ellis, John Ellis•The Cambridge Ancient History…•1994

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• South Italy in the fourth century B.C.

  Open Access•Nicholas Purcell•The Cambridge Ancient History…•1994

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• Alexander the Great Part 2

  Open Access•A B Bosworth•The Cambridge Ancient History…•1994

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• Sparta as victor

  Open Access•D M Lewis•The Cambridge Ancient History…•1994

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• Society and economy

  Open Access•M M Austin•The Cambridge Ancient History…•1994

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• Dion and Timoleon

  Open Access•H D Westlake•The Cambridge Ancient History…•1994

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• Illyrians and North-west Greeks

  Open Access•N G L Hammond, Ν G L Hammond•The Cambridge Ancient History…•1994

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• Persia

  Open Access•Simon Hornblower•The Cambridge Ancient History…•1994

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• Carthage from the battle at Himera to Agathocles' invasion (480–308 B.C.)

  Open Access•Gilbert Ch Picard•The Cambridge Ancient History…•1994

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• Cyprus and Phoenicia

  Open Access•F G Maier, Fabian Maier•The Cambridge Ancient History…•1994

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• Greek art

  Open Access•J J Pollitt•The Cambridge Ancient History…•1994

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• Warfare

  Open Access•Yvon Garlan•The Cambridge Ancient History…•1994

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• Sicily, 413–368 B.C.

  Open Access•D M Lewis•The Cambridge Ancient History…•1994

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• The polis and the alternatives

  Open Access•P J Rhodes•The Cambridge Ancient History…•1994

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• The King's Peace and the Second Athenian Confederacy

  Open Access•Robin Seager•The Cambridge Ancient History…•1994

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• Land and Power in Ptolemaic Egypt

  Open Access•John G Manning•Land and Power in Ptolemaic Egypt•2003

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• The Cambridge Ancient History

  Open Access•John B Bury, Alan K Bowman et al.•The Cambridge Ancient History…•1994

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• Sacred Animals at Saqqara

  Open Access•Paul T Nicholson•Heritage•2022

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• Living amongst the Dead

  Open Access•Scott M Williams•Heritage•2022

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• Food

  Dorothy J Crawford•World Archaeology•1979

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• The Catacombs of Anubis at North Saqqara

  Open Access•Paul T Nicholson, Ikram et al.•Antiquity•2015

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• Man, Settlement and Urbanism

  Peter Ucko, Ruth Tringham et al.•Man, Settlement and Urbanism•1991

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• The Archive of Hor

  Mark Smith, Mark Scott Smith et al.•The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology•1978

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