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  Serapeum of Saqqara

  How did New Kingdom and later Egyptian workers quarry, hollow, and dress roughly two dozen multi-tonne granite and diorite sarcophagi for sacred Apis bulls, then maneuver each finished box through narrow rock-cut galleries deep underground and lower it precisely into its burial niche?

  c. 1400 BCE – 30 BCE, New Kingdom through Ptolemaic period · Saqqara, near Memphis, EgyptAdded July 2026
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  Step Pyramid of Djoser

  How did Egyptian builders make the leap from mudbrick tombs to the world's first monumental building in cut stone — a six-tiered, ~60-metre pyramid raised in stages by a single named architect, Imhotep — and why did they choose to do it here, all at once?

  c. 2670 BCE (Third Dynasty, reign of Djoser) · Saqqara, near Memphis, EgyptAdded July 2026