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The 16 pages that link to Saqqara, each with the reason it gives.

• Early Dynastic Period of EgyptRelated: Its elite tombs show how royal and administrative centers extended beyond Abydos.

• Pyramid TextsRelated: Several major Pyramid Texts inscriptions survive in pyramids at this cemetery.

• Ancient Egyptian funerary practicesRelated: Its tombs preserve funerary evidence spanning changing customs and social ranks.

• MemphisBroader topic: Saqqara is the best-known burial ground associated with the capital.

• Giza pyramid complexRelated: Its earlier funerary monuments help trace the development that led to Giza’s pyramid complexes.

• Egyptian archaeologyBroader topic: Its tombs and monuments document elite burial practices across many periods.

• DjoserBroader topic: Djoser’s pyramid complex stands within this major burial ground.

• ImhotepRelated: The Step Pyramid and its surrounding complex stand at this necropolis.

• MastabaRelated: Its early elite mastabas show how the form developed near Egypt's first capital.

• Pyramid of DjoserRelated: The pyramid stands within this burial landscape, beside tombs from several periods.

• Third Dynasty of EgyptNarrower topic: The dynasty’s key monuments belong to a much longer funerary landscape at Saqqara.

• SobekneferuBroader topic: A pyramid complex there is associated with Sobekneferu’s royal burial.

• Giza GovernorateBroader topic: Saqqara lies within the governorate and extends its archaeological landscape southward.

• African sacred ibisRelated: Its catacombs held vast deposits of mummified ibises offered to the gods.

• Zahi HawassRelated: Hawass has worked at this major site and helped bring its discoveries to public attention.

• Djedkare IsesiNarrower topic: Djedkare's pyramid was built within this major funerary landscape.