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Monuments Sight Seeing Attractions Meidum Necropolis Monuments Sight Seeing Attractions Meidum Necropolis Snefru’s pyramid at Meidum was surrounded by many private burials of Dynasty IV – the first newly established elite cemetery since the archaic necropolis at Saqqara. The fact that this necropolis was established gives credence to the suggestion that the Meidum pyramid did […]

Egypt geology Egypt geology is a land of contrasts – the fertile Nile Valley, the arid desert regions, the lowland Sahara and the highland Red Sea Hills. In spite of their apparent desolation, the deserts have frequently played an important part in Egyptian economic life. At the end of the Pleistocene, as the glaciers began […]