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A step pyramid or stepped pyramid is an architectural structure that uses flat platforms, or steps, receding from the ground up, to achieve a completed shape similar to a geometric pyramid. Step pyram
Stepped pyramids in Teotihuacan, Mexico
The 4100-year-old Great Ziggurat of Ur in southern Iraq
Pyramid of Djoser in 2010
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Pyramid of Djoser
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The Pyramid of Djoser, sometimes called the Step Pyramid of Djoser or Step Pyramid of Horus Netjerikhet, is an archaeological site in the Saqqara necropolis, Egypt, northwest of the ruins of Memphis.
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…Egyptians themselves, contemporaneously or in numerous later Dynastic writings about the character, did not credit him with either the designing of the Pyramid of Djoser or the invention of stone architecture. Djoser's pyramid was first built as a square mastaba like structure, which as a rule were known to otherwise…
Djoser's step pyramid at Saqqara, seen from the southeast
Perspective view, plan and elevation images Djoser's Pyramid Complex taken from a 3d model
Statue of King Djoser
Substructure of the pyramid: main shaft and galleries in gray, burial chamber in dark red, blue-tiled galleries in blue, eastern shafts I–XI in orange, second entrance in light red