At the town of Hermopolis, ibises were reared specifically for sacrificial purposes and in the serapeum at Saqqara, archaeologists found the mummies of one and a half million ibises and hundreds of thousands of falcons.
Na cidade de Hermopolis, o ibis criábase especificamente para utilizalo despois nos sacrificios, e no serapeum en Saqqara, os arqueólogos atoparon momias de un millón e medio de ibis e de centos de miles de falcóns.