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A Thousand Miles up the Nile Chapter IV - Sakkârah and Memphis Part 3
In which the delicate artistry and vivid lifelikeness of ancient Egyptian sculptures are admired, revealing both the skill of the craftsmen and the ravages of time and sand upon their colours, while the mysterious tomb of Ti and the intriguing Serapeum evoke a quiet reverence for Egypt’s ancient rites and beliefs. The journey turns to the silent, desolate mounds of Memphis, where once a great city flourished, now reduced to scattered ruins and broken colossi, leaving the visitor to muse on the passage of ages and the faint echoes of a vanished splendour.
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