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Where were dead Apis bulls buried near Memphis?

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Memphis, Egypt: colossal statue of Ramses II — Memphis Colossal statue of Ramses II, carved from limestone, that once adorned the great temple of Ptah in Memphis, Egypt.

Near the ancient city of Memphis, deceased Apis bulls were buried with great ceremony at Ṣaqqārah. These burials were housed in extensive underground galleries and catacombs known as the Serapeum.12

While the site served as a cemetery for the sacred bulls as early as 1400 BCE, Ramses II later commissioned the construction of a main gallery and subsidiary chambers to serve as a formal catacomb. In death, the bulls were assimilated to the god Osiris as Osiris-Apis. The ruins of these subterranean chambers were famously rediscovered in 1850 by the French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette, who uncovered the burials of 64 Apis bulls.2