Be a Roman in Rome is one.

Buying entry tickets at a cost of, 50 Egyptian pounds per person for ImhotepMuseum and Saqqara we find ourselves in a chamber. 

A short DVD film narrate, by Omar Sheriff introduces to the exhibit.

It was a live filming about the discovery of the tombs at Saqqara in recent 2003.

Nobility chose burial close to Memphis in area Saqqara. Deceased pharaohs, family members, and sacred animals transported with gracious ceremonies from Memphis to be eternally enshrined in one of the myriad temples, pyramids, and tombs at Saqqara. 

Ticket control personnel at Imhotep Museum Gate were enjoying dates and they offered us some. That we had a sumptuous breakfast politely refused the same and walked inside.

It was dark indoors with lights highlighting objects.

Inaugurated only last year 2006 ImhotepMuseum house Saqqara finds. 

Materials excavated included huge stone vases that appeared hand made from olden days. Confirm the guide.

Thus, may say some oldest vase in the world protected inside expensive glass.

An archaeology student the guide was fluent in English and eagerly showed us around. 

The Mummy found was of King Merenre I ca 2297 2292 BC

Mummy of King Merenre I, preserved in glass safe - looked quite eerie. Historians, record throne period of the King as widely documented.

Two most important event of his reign were successful campaign to subjugate Lower Nubian in South and construct a pyramid but leave an unfinished temple because of his sudden death.

A suspicious me read through speculative reconstruction of jigsaw puzzles, but not convinced. Comparing finds, they appear shallow interpretation on ancient Egypt. Similar shallow label interpretation finds in the London Museum too. Well, my comments are not for narrow-minded scholars. 

For example these mysterious stone feet placed over 9 bows what does it mean?

The guide quips with kind of brainwashed retort, about the King - as an arrogant man showing his power. A spontaneous smirk escapes my concept.

I ask about the birds and he says they are just birds of those days. (Amusing, somehow fill in the blanks honestly, whosoever cares, the world has to look forward and not back.)

Huh!

Impossible that can never be the answer.

Sure, there is a different message, that of peace. Stamping over weapon denoting weapon still stand, and the white birds could be doves symbolising peace. I insist to the guide and his eyes brighten up. Softly he adds, maybe my idea was right. It made a lot more sense to think in these lines. 

Other objects unearthed from the tombs were these. Woman shown is stilling a baby.

Round between horns wonder what these could be, perhaps Luna trapped between snake horns. Not Sun because Luna suggests for creativity from heads. Beside seen the Sun represented via Red Circles in frescos. Need clues.

Now, now, call me lunatic, I can just smile back at those who recognise themselves in me. 

The face of the sphinx here though resembles that guarding the Pyramids in front of Giza is very much smaller.

Saqqara named after the ancient Egyptian Lord of Death Sakar the Sanskrit Yamaraja.

Is it a hope to get the spelling correct thru another language? Oops! The argumentative Indians row through the Niles too.

Even the scholars validate. Confusion writ large that study about the ancient is expensive and partly haphazard. 

Some more ancient pieces, note in the centre an object design familiar to (Indy baba Bong) wedding ceremonies the bridegroom has it in his hand. Wow! Imaginative runs east to west.

Adore the flow of Niles and Monsieur Nilkantha of the Ganges conjures vision.

Somewhere read (a pity, cannot remember the source. Maybe Jimmy Dunn or Caroline Seawright) the following about Maat

In life, it was the pharaohs' duty to uphold ma'at. "I have done Ma'at" spoken by several pharaohs, as well as being called "beloved of Ma'at". 
On travel Egypt, my personal impressions confirm my hunch (Let me add my peanuts worth on Ma'at". Could be Mahat Karma that to uphold Ma'at" it was the pharaohs' duty. DUTY A TYPICAL KARMA CONCEPT --)

The Pyramid with steps bless made by architect genius Imhotep for the Pharaoh Djoser of the 3^rd Dynasty is the oldest known of Egypts 97 pyramids in numbers.

Some strange feeling grips me with goose pimple and spontaneously I pick up a handful of pastel colour sand as souvenir. 

Exquisite Saqqara was a delight to behold.

Yes, schools of thoughts sometimes partners in dime, agree, disagree as per scales, tales, and mails, trails what not If great scholars churn, out imaginative theories touching, peering, breaking bones sorry stones, then non-professionals surely have a better right to whip up rows. (The historian Manetho state that King Teti assassinated by his bodyguard, but some scholars believe that Teti's eventual assassination was motivated by resentment at the eclipse of priestly authority. Naguib Kanawati of MacquarieUniversity, Sydney, has uncovered evidence to support the murder theory.) Hey, I dismiss this as utter rubbish. Well, I have my reasons and I will not tell. Indeed wild ideas - Eclipse of priestly authority my foot (surely mean depth and nothing more, no apology) 

Guard the testimonials. Police on camel back pose for a shot obligingly. The board at a distance reads in Arabic and English Titi Pyramid Kagemnj Tomb.

The name Teti's pyramid denotes 'The Pyramid which is enduring Of Palaces'. Its original height was 52.5m/172ft. first opened in 1881. It resembled other 6th Dynasty pyramids. Inside was a sarcophagus of grey basalt and near it Teti's viscera found in a canopy chest like that of Pepi I. 

Site developed by the French Archaeological Mission of the Bubasteion at Sakkara under the direction of Alain Zivie, Director of Research at the Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique at Paris.

Is it queer how things escape from storage magazine, stolen? For example, the Saint LouisArt Museum in the US bought the New Kingdom funerary mask (ca 1500BC) of Ka-nefer, documented in the Antiquities Dept register by Zakaria Ghoneim, who found the same at the pyramid of Sekhemkhet at Saqqara in 1959 while excavating for relics. Surprisingly, knowing objects as stolen many Museum authorities abroad do not want to return the same back to Egypt. The director at Saint Louis too feels no reason to return the same either. 

Men under the scorching Sahara sun sell cheap copies of Egyptian ornaments. Surprisingly speak multiple trade languages and click good photographs for the tourists wanting complete family on print.

Heat was aggressive and just a light cover over the skin helped protect sunny wrath. 

A last shot at the one many spread out pyramid at Saqqara. We set for Dashur

Another interesting place of ancient uncovers. 

Green surrounded the mounds and sandy hillocks.

There was sanctity in the atmosphere around the barren topography from the top the fertile areas visible. 

Away from heavy subjects a road loop and typical date palm trees.

Can I stop sharing the scene on way to Dashur? 

Never in my life did I see dates hanging like birds nests.

Road embraces enjoyable journey. We are in Dashur. 

This pyramid lying in the previously forbidden military area opened to tourists since 1996.

From the gate, a police officer escorts us into the pyramid area, by hopping into our vehicle, perching next to the driver.

As per assumptions the crack crust pyramid maybe the result of high state costs, those days.

This pyramid relate to King Sneferu (2680-2565) Experts assert plan defect, like load of the pyramid direction outwards instead down and inwards, thus degenerating by its own lateral forces.

King Sneferu built two more pyramids at Dashur. The first known as the Bent pyramid (Architect info: 70 % of its bulk rise at the same 52-degree angle abruptly alters to 43.5 degrees) 

Felt great to photograph the magnificent conical colossal.

The treasures of the pyramids went as gifts to partner countries as 50-50 keep excavation booties as costs clear.

Man and his nature to possess belongings of others strange are the ways of humankind.

To look at another angle perhaps sharing is greater than hoarding riches 

Stairs that lead to the pyramid carry board declaring no photographs inside the tombs.

Also built by King Sneferu Red Pyramid derived its name from rusty red limestone rock used as casing (Architect info: at a regular 43.5 degrees). Cover area edifice is slightly less than Great Pyramid in Giza built by his son. 

We head for Memphis but the driver halts to tank his vehicle. Wonder the type of petrol pump.

Then notice some barrels lined up. However cannot remember him tanking but just a hop out hop in. Maybe he had filled in a can. Inside the vehicle, we were busy going through our digital takes. 

Over train lines and more trees carrying fruits, we proceed to the real Memphis.

On transit sunk deep in thoughts, ponder over the pharaohs and their ways of life.

Those enormous Bamiyan Buddha carved on Himalayas begin to haunt. Cannot imagine dull attempts to wipe away exemplary. Only criminals indulge in such activities. 

Ward off outrageous offenders is a control of bags at the gate, mandatory.

There were visitors from all nations.

Huge lay waste or not at all - it is but recovered and preserved indoors and outdoors. 

Ramses ll in Memphis His naming - Whats there in a name? Rose, Ra, Ram, Ramessu-meryamen, Washmuaria, Shatepnaria, Riamashesha, Maiamana, Name is game. Say, your name is my game. The same spelling of the word question sounds different in phonic French.

Assuming the Hieroglyphs by scholars, most pharaohs, inclusive, Ramesses had many names. Two most significant, his praenomen (regal name) and nomen (birth name) shown in Egyptian hieroglyphs.

Transliterated these express: wsr-m3t-rstp-n-r r-ms-swmry- -mn, written as Usermaatra-setepenra Ramessu-meryamen. Translation - "Powerful one of Maat, the Justice of Ra is Powerful, chosen of Ra, Ra bore him, beloved of Amun."

The Pharaoh's name appears as Washmuaria Shatepnaria Riamashesha Maiamana in the Hittite copy of the above-mentioned peace treaty with Hattusilis.

Few schools suppose this as tangible approximation of phonetic of the Egyptian king's name. 

View from another side of the colossal statue of Ramses ll. The snake on his head is significant.

These large size mysteries are beyond years and years of finding clues. No matter how much written, loopholes remain.

During the New Kingdom (c1570-332BC), Memphis took 2^nd place to Thebes as Egypts capital. Govt officials who ruled Upper Egypt lived in Memphis and found burial in Saqqara.
 

Slab depicting mum explanation. Mute but cute snake hold position over half disc, and horizontal parallel lines.

Next to, it is the sign of Taurus, above a bird

Crack the brain to understand!