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Entrance to the stairway leading to the Southern Tomb of King Djoser’s funerary complex
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Entrance to the stairway leading to the Southern Tomb of King Djoser’s funerary complex
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Deriving laterally from the descending stairway, there’s this opening that makes me wonder if it’s the so-called magazine for food offerings - not sure
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Absolutely beautiful view of the final section of the descending stairway and the great shaft
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The walls of the Southern Tomb’s great shaft become apparent as I clear the descending stairway
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Turning back from the view of the great shaft and granite sarcophagus, I noticed Ada cleared the Southern Tomb’s descending stairway
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The Southern Tomb’s central shaft measures 7.5 meters x 7.5 meters and is 31 meters deep
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The bottom of the Southern Tomb’s central shaft has a beautiful granite sarcophagus made of 16 granite slabs
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The precise function of King Djoser’s Southern Tomb and granite sarcophagus remains speculative
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View of the granite slabs at the top of the sarcophagus within the Southern Tomb of King Djoser
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The Southern Tomb’s granite sarcophagus, viewed from the bottom level of the central shaft
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Only at close inspection it’s possible to tell the so-called “pink” component of the granite in the slabs
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The bottom level of the Southern Tomb’s central shaft with its pink granite sarcophagus
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The central shaft at Djoser’s Southern Tomb looks impressive from the bottom level, especially with a sarcophagus slab in the mix
