SAQQARA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Saqqara mean? 

• SAQQARA (noun)
  The noun SAQQARA has 1 sense:

1. a town in northern Egypt; site of the oldest Egyptian pyramids

  Familiarity information: SAQQARA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SAQQARA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A town in northern Egypt; site of the oldest Egyptian pyramids

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Sakkara; Saqqara; Saqqarah

Instance hypernyms:

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

Holonyms ("Saqqara" is a part of...):

Arab Republic of Egypt; Egypt; United Arab Republic (a republic in northeastern Africa known as the United Arab Republic until 1971; site of an ancient civilization that flourished from 2600 to 30 BC)

 Context examples 

Egyptian archaeologists have discovered a rare collection of mummified scarab beetles, as well as an apparently pristine Fifth Dynasty tomb they plan to open in the coming weeks in the Saqqara necropolis, 30 km (19mi) south of Cairo.

(Egyptian Archaeologists Uncover One-Of-A-Kind Tomb South of Cairo, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The team collected DNA samples from mummified birds collected from six separate catacombs including sites at Abydos, Saqqara, and Tuna el-Gebel with permission from the Egyptian Ministry of State for Antiquity, and several museums offered to send tissue samples from the mummified ibises in their collections.

(Ancient Egyptians collected wild ibis birds for sacrifice, says study, Wikinews)

Millions of mummified ibis birds have been found in Egyptian tombs and catacombs in Saqqara and Tuna el-Gebel, and Egyptologists have reported they were sacrificed to the god Thoth, who is often depicted with the head of an ibis, the way Horus is shown with the head of a falcon and Bast with the head of a cat.

(Ancient Egyptians collected wild ibis birds for sacrifice, says study, Wikinews)