serapeum

Mapping subsurface Saqqara

Revealing the remains of a tightly packed complex of previously unknown temples and tombs.

Above Auguste Mariette (1821 1881). right A drawing of Burial Chamber V of the Greater Vaults, probably of the Apis bull that died in Year 7 of Ptolemy XII, from Mariette (1856) Choix de monuments et de dessins, découverts ou exécutés pendant le déblaiement du Sérapéum de Memphis, vol.2.

The Discovery of the Serapeum of Saqqara

Auguste Mariette uncovers the funerary complex of the Apis bulls.