Museum · Egypt
Memphis Open-Air Museum (Mit Rahina)
متحف ميت رهينة المفتوح
Open-air museum in Mit Rahina on the site of ancient Memphis, with an alabaster sphinx and stonework from the Ptah temple area.
Where it is
29.8495, 31.2552
Why go
Mit Rahina village stands on the remains of Memphis, Egypt's capital in the Early Dynastic Period and Old Kingdom and the cult centre of the creator god Ptah. Its open-air museum is where visitors meet the vanished city: statuary and inscribed stone gathered from the area of the Ptah temple enclosure, where a large alabaster sphinx stands. The Ministry still brings new finds here for conservation, such as pink-granite blocks naming Ramesses II and the upper part of a rare royal ka-statue of that king, recovered in rescue excavations nearby.
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