Private Saqqara Experience All Open Tombs Pyramids & the Serapeum

Step back over 4,600 years on a comprehensive guided tour of Saqqara, the heart of ancient Egypt’s Old Kingdom. With your Egyptologist guide, explore the Step Pyramid of King Djoser, the world’s first monumental stone structure and the beginning of pyramid building. Continue to the Pyramid of Unas and Pyramid of Teti, featuring the earliest Pyramid Texts, along with richly decorated mastabas such as Mehu, Ptahhotep and Akhethotep, Mereruka, Kagemni, Ti, and Princess Idut, all showcasing vivid scenes of daily life, religion, and royal rituals. You will also visit the mysterious Serapeum of Saqqara, with its massive underground granite sarcophagi, as well as selected tombs of the New Kingdom, offering insight into the evolution of ancient Egyptian burial beliefs. This is a comprehensive Saqqara experience covering the most important monuments, tombs, and artistic masterpieces of ancient Egypt.