A bit melodramatic, but worth the views of the giza plateau lit up with spotlights and lasers

Anyone who has ever seen pictures of Egypt, or studied the history of architecture has seen the marvel of Saqqara, the Step Pyramid. Halfway between a flat, loaf-like mastaba and the true pyramids that are so iconic of Egypt

Just southwest of Djoser lies the rounded mound of Sekhemkhet’s pyramid, a complete complex meant to have all the element of the Step Pyramid of Djoser, but apparently abandoned before it was finished

The Pyramid was closed when we went — many of the sites in Saqqara are closed for renovations or restoration work — and from the outside it doesn’t look like much. A pile of limestone rubble in the vague shape of a pyramid originally 44 meters high, but squashed down to less than 20 now. If […]

This utterly collapsed pyarmid looks like a conical stone pile, but it marks the return of the pharaohs to Saqqara as a burial place in the fifth dynasty.

I think that every tourist in Egypt wants to go into the Great Pyramid — for many, it i the highlight of the trip.

Of the three Middle Kingdom pyramids at Dashur, the best remains belong to Amenemhet III, a ruler of the 12th Dynasty. This one, though, is almost unrecognizable as a pyramid.

The second of Sneferu’s pyramids in Dashur, the Bent Pyramid is a very obvious example of the trial-and-error that accompanied pyramid building in the Old Kingdom.

Sneferu built three pyramids, two in Dashur and one in Maidum. The Red Pyramid is his second effort, and is the first true “pyramid-shaped” pyramid built.