The bird of Saqqara

Saqqara Bird The Saqqara Bird is a bird-shaped artefact made of sycamore wood, discovered during the 1898 excavation of the Pa-di-Imen tomb in Saqqara, Egypt. It has been dated to approximately 200 BCE and is now housed in Cairo’s Museum of Egyptian Antiquities. The Saqqara Bird has a wingspan of 180 mm (7.1 in) and […]

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