Saqqara
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Saqqara, also spelled Sakkara or Saccara in English, is an Egyptian village in the markaz of Badrashin in the Giza Governorate, that contains ancient mausoleum crypts of Egyptian royalty, serving as t
The stepped Pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara
Relief from tomb (Louvre)
View of Saqqara necropolis, including Djoser's step pyramid (centre), the Pyramid of Unas (left) and the Pyramid of Userkaf (right)
Funerary complex of Djoser
Imhotep
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Imhotep was an Egyptian chancellor to the King Djoser, possible architect of Djoser's step pyramid, and high priest of the sun god Ra at Heliopolis. Very little is known of Imhotep as a historical fig
Saqqara
…Nynetjer. It probably inspired the monumental enclosure wall around the Step Pyramid complex. Djoser's funerary complex, built by the royal architect Imhotep, further comprises a large number of dummy buildings and a secondary mastaba (the so-called 'Southern Tomb'). French architect and Egyptologist…
Statuette of Imhotep, 664–30 BC
The step pyramid of Djoser
Ernest Board: An invocation to I-em-hetep, the Egyptian deity of medicine, c. 1912