Sakkara Steps (Ring Rd.)

Sakkara Steps (Ring Rd.) is a bus stop in Giza Governorate, Egypt. Sakkara Steps (Ring Rd.) is situated nearby to Adam Henein Museum, as well as near the theme park Malahy Al Fustat Land.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Pyramid of Kheops and Great Sphinx.

Pyramid of Kheops

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The Great Pyramid of Giza is the largest Egyptian pyramid. It served as the tomb of pharaoh Khufu, who ruled during the Fourth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom. Pyramid of Kheops is situated 3½ km west of Sakkara Steps (Ring Rd.).

Great Sphinx

Work of art

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The Great Sphinx of Giza is a limestone statue of a reclining sphinx, a mythical creature with the head of a human and the body of a lion. The monument was sculpted from the limestone bedrock of the Eocene-aged Mokattam Formation and faces east on the Giza Plateau, on the west bank of the Nile in Giza, Egypt. Great Sphinx is situated 3½ km west of Sakkara Steps (Ring Rd.).

Sphinx Stele

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The Dream Stele, also called the Sphinx Stele, is an epigraphic stele erected between the front paws of the Great Sphinx of Giza by the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Thutmose IV in the first year of the king's reign, 1401 BC, during the 18th Dynasty. Sphinx Stele is situated 3½ km west of Sakkara Steps (Ring Rd.).

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Nazlet Al Siman and Al Sisi and Giza.

Nazlet Al Siman and Al Sisi

Neighborhood

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Nazlet Al Siman and Al Sisi is a neighborhood, which is situated 2½ km west of Sakkara Steps (Ring Rd.).

Giza

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Picture yourself in Egypt and you picture this. Imagine Ancient Egypt and this is where your mind will land. Here is Giza, the city just west of Cairo, where on a desert plateau stand the Pyramids, Sphinx and royal tombs of the pharaohs.