Deep underground at the Serapeum of Saqqara sit massive single piece granite boxes, some weighing up to 100 tons. Their surfaces are polished to a mirror finish that still reflects light today, even ...

"The Serapeum, the most important temple of Serapis, was located in the native Egyptian quarter of Rakhotis. Evidently founded in the reign of Ptolemy III, much of the temple was constructed in the ...