Editing Saqqara (section)

===After the New Kingdom===
During the periods after the New Kingdom, when several cities in the [[Nile Delta|Delta]] served as capital of Egypt, Saqqara remained in use as a burial ground for nobles. Moreover, the area became an important destination for pilgrims to a number of cult centres. Activities sprang up around the Serapeum, and extensive underground galleries were cut into the rock as burial sites for large numbers of mummified ibises, baboons, cats, dogs, and falcons.

====Monuments of the Late Period, the Graeco-Roman and later periods====
*Several shaft tombs of officials of the [[Late Period of ancient Egypt|Late Period]]
*[[Serapeum of Saqqara|Serapeum]] (the larger part dating to the [[Ptolemaic Period]])
*The so-called 'Philosophers circle', a monument to important [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] thinkers and poets, consisting of statues of [[Hesiod]], [[Homer]], [[Pindar]], [[Plato]], and others (Ptolemaic)
*Several [[Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria|Coptic]] monasteries, among which the [[Monastery of Apa Jeremiah]] ([[Egypt (Roman province)#Byzantine Egypt|Byzantine]] and [[Muslim conquest of Egypt|Early Islamic]] Periods)