The Saqqara Serapeum:
Found in 1851 by the French Egyptologist François Auguste Ferdinand Mariette, He was in a mission seeking Coptic manuscript for the Louvre collection so that it retained its then-supremacy over other national collections, He came to Egypt in 1850 but after an unsuccessful mission finding the manuscripts to avoid an embarrassing return empty-handed to France, Started to visit temples and get friendship with the Bedouins whom led him to Saqqara, Thus, in 1851, he made his celebrated discovery of this avenue and eventually the subterranean tomb-temple complex of catacombs with their spectacular sarcophagi of the Apis bulls, Saqqara Serapeum located near the djoser pyramid in Saqqara.
Saqqara Serapeum Map
The Serapeum of Saqqara corridors are carved in the ground for a distance of 380 meters, Separated side sections had 24 granite coffins, The average weight of the sarcophagus is about 100 tons, and there is only the "lower vestibule", which includes the tombs of the Apis bull.
Now here goes the questions ,
How was this corridors carved in the ground for 380 meters?
How was this 100 ton granite Boxes or Sarcophagus pushed inside?
How was granite Sarcophagus cut and polished without a machine?
What was the source of power?
Every time Explorers of the Egyptology find a new discovery thinking that they will find answers they get stuck in more and more questions and mysteries
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