Today was a big day and the theme was pyramids.  Our first stop was Dashur, which is located about 40 minutes south of Giza and like Saqqara, served as a necropolis for the capital city of Memphis.  A UNESECO World Heritage site (sense a theme?) it hosts the Bent Pyramid and the Red Pyramid, two of the best preserved pyramids, built around in  2600BC.  As I mentioned previously the Step Pyramid at… Read More