Discovering the treasures of Saqqara.

The project to restore the southern tomb of King Djoser in Saqqara was inaugurated this morning after completing the restoration work by purely Egyptian hands, which began in 2006.

The southern tomb of King Djoser is located in the southern corner of his funerary complex in the Saqqara antiquities area. A stone staircase leads to a door carved in the rock as well. The entrance corridor has a stone staircase that leads in turn to the cemetery’s door, which leads to the internal corridors leading to the level of the cemetery’s voids and the container for murals decorated with blue faience.

In the tomb, there is a well at the end of a burial chamber with a huge pink granite sarcophagus similar to the burial chamber in the Step Pyramid.

There are also many long corridors and corridors whose walls are decorated with fake doors bearing the image of the king and his titles, and the walls are decorated with pieces of blue faience.

The granite sarcophagus at the bottom of the burial well was reassembled and restored, in addition to rehabilitating the cemetery for visits by paving the floors, installing a ladder leading to the well and the cemetery, and fully lighting it.

The cemetery will be opened for visits starting tomorrow, Tuesday, September 14, with the prices of visit tickets for Egyptians 40 pounds, Egyptian students 20 pounds, foreigners 100 pounds, and international students 50 pounds. The visit includes the entrance to the southern cemetery, the well to its end, and the sarcophagus.