Abstract
The work of the Saqqara Geophysical Survey Project has involved a close examination of the landscape of this important necropolis, prompting a reconsideration of the role landscape may have played in the selection of sites for Early Dynastic royal burials at Saqqara. In this paper, the ideas of other authors are developed to argue that our modern view of Saqqara, which tends to regard the site from the perspective of the Nile Valley, is different from that of Egyptians of the Early Dynastic Period and early Old Kingdom. Furthermore, by altering our perspective of the site, a symbolic origin for the use of causeways in pyramid architecture can be proposed.
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