| . . .The ancient city of Memphis has all
but disappeared under the modern village of Mit Rahina. It is
beleived that a temple is buried here that would rival the size of
Karnak. This was the first capital city of Egypt, the first
capital in the world, the city of the great god
Ptah. But it did not survive into the
modern era. One of the few places to see the remnants of this ancient
glory is in the open air museum in the enclosure of Ptah. This sphinx
that we see here is known as the Alabaster Sphinx, it true identity
lost to the ravages of time.
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