Location :
At Mit Rahina village about 12 miles from Giza pyramids .

How to get there ?

By vehicle:
If you need a private transfer, Memphis tours can arrange that for you by Air-conditioned modern vehicle from anywhere in Cairo or Giza.

Explanation:
The city was founded by King Menes, that king who unified upper & Lower Egypt, in 3,100 BC by creating dikes to protect the area from Nile floods.
The city was the capital of ancient Egypt during the Old Kingdom , it is considered to be a center of rule and culture for over 3000 years and had great architectural achievements and it is believed that Memphis was the largest city in the world from its foundation until around 2250 BC.

At Memphis you can see a colossal Limestone statue of the great Rameses II, lying on the ground in a covered pavillion. The statue once measured almost 40 feet but has been damaged with its legs and feet missing.

Memphis is the Greek version of one of the many names the Ancient Egyptians used to denote the city that lay on the border between Upper- and Lower-Egypt.

The Egyptian version of the name "Memphis", derived from Mn-nfr, "the beautiful monument" came from the name of the pyramid of Pepi I at Saqqara , that is to say, Mennefer. Menfe in Coptic and hellenized as Memphis. Since the 18th Dynasty, this name has extended to cover the entire region or city where this pyramid was built. It is not known why the name of a monument of relatively minor importance, such as Pepi I's pyramid, as compared to the pyramid of Cheops in Giza, became the name of the entire city.

The original name given to this city and used together with the name Mn-nfr, was inb-hd "the White Walls", a reference to the white walls surrounding it.

According to Manetho , the city of Memphis was founded by Menes after the unification of Egypt. This is supported by the fact that the oldest known tombs of any importance were built at that period, but it needs to be noted that the area was inhabited even before Narmer 's reign.

During the Old Kingdom, it served as the nation's capital and it held the kings' primary residence. The end of the Old Kingdom by no means meant the end of Memphis as one of the most important cities in Egypt Memphis remained the political and administrative center of Lower- and Middle-Egypt. This importance was recognized even by the Theban kings of the 18th Dynasty. Thutmosis III and Amenhotep II often held residence at Memphis and to be accepted as a king of Egypt, one needed to be crowned at Memphis.

After the turmoil of the Amarna revolution at the end of the 18th Dynasty , Tutankhamun took up residence, not at Thebes, which was the capital of his predecessors (except Akhenaten), but at Memphis. The Ramesside kings, whose primary residence was the city Per-Ramesses in the Delta, too, recognized the importance of Memphis. One of Ramesses II?s army divisions was named in honor of the Memphite god Ptah; and one of his sisters, Tiya, was buried at its necropolis, along with many other New Kingdom officials and dignitaries.

Memphis was also the principal place of the cult of the god Ptah, who is accepted as a creator-god in the region. There were many temples built for him, his wife Sekhmet and their son Nefertem now lie in ruins, or have been demolished, destroyed and stripped of their decoration to be dispersed throughout the world. It is from one of these temples, Hw.t-kA-PtH (Hut-Ka-Ptah) "the house of the Ka of Ptah" that the Greeks derived the name Aegyptos, hence the modern name Egypt.

The principal necropolises associated with Memphis were Saqqara and Giza, although other places to the West of the city were sometimes favored as burial places.