Serapeum of Saqqara
How did New Kingdom and later Egyptian workers quarry, hollow, and dress roughly two dozen multi-tonne granite and diorite sarcophagi for sacred Apis bulls, then maneuver each finished box through narrow rock-cut galleries deep underground and lower it precisely into its burial niche?
c. 1400 BCE – 30 BCE, New Kingdom through Ptolemaic period · Saqqara, near Memphis, EgyptAdded July 2026