About a month ago, we had the great privilege to attend a tour of Sakarra and Memphis with Dr Alain Zivie.<\/p>\n
Dr Zivie has been digging in Sakarra for a very long time. He has made many notable discoveries <\/a>including a mummified lion and the tomb of the wetnurse to Tutankhamen and is featured in a short movie they show at the Imhotep museum in the Sakarra complex.<\/p>\n He took us on a tour of the necropolis of Sakarra. We visited the tomb of Horemheb.<\/a><\/p>\n Much of that tomb’s original art now lives in museums in Paris, Belgium and London. Most of what is on the site now are replicas. They are still quite amazing.<\/p>\n All of this sits a few minutes walk from the main tourist attractions. And is practically unknown.<\/p>\n Dr Zivie then took us to Memphis. Not much remains of the once royal city of Egypt. Some statues mostly, and vague impressions on the ground of where walls once stood.<\/p>\n