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Perspective view, plan and elevation images Djoser's Pyramid Complex taken from a 3d model Statue of King Djoser. Djoser was the first or second king of the 3rd Dynasty (c. 2670 –2650 BC) of the Old Kingdom of Egypt (c. 2686 – c. 2125 BC). [1]
Djoser (also read as Djeser and Zoser) was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh of the 3rd Dynasty during the Old Kingdom, and was the founder of that epoch. He is also known by his Hellenized names Tosorthros (from Manetho ) and Sesorthos (from Eusebius ).
The building was finished in 1937, a few months before King Zog married Queen Géraldine Apponyi de Nagyappony. The villa was used after World War II as a government reception building. During Communist Albania , many communist leaders from Soviet first secretary Nikita Khrushchev to the Cambodian prince Samde Norodom Sihanuk have been guests ...
After the turbulent last years of the Second Dynasty, which might have included civil war, Egypt came under the rule of Djoser, marking the beginning of the Third Dynasty. [1] Both the Turin King List and the Abydos King List record five kings, [2] while the Saqqara Tablet only records four, and Manetho records nine, [3] many of whom did not ...
Summer Palace of Skhirat, created by King Hassan II, [4] the scene of the 1971 Moroccan coup d'état attempt; [5] Royal Palace of Agadir, created by Hassan II in the 1990s and including an ocean-facing golf course; [6] Marshan Palace, Tangier, former seat of the International Legislative Assembly of the Tangier International Zone, repurposed in ...
The Ramsar Palace was established on a land of 60,000 square meters in 1937. [15] [16] The area was a historical garden in Ramsar. [17] The palace was used as a summer residence by Reza Shah and then by his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. [18] Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and his second spouse Sorayya Esfendiari spent their honeymoon in the palace. [19 ...
The Mausoleum of the Albanian Royal Family is a building in Tirana, capital of Albania, which holds the remains of King Zog and other members of his family (House of Zogu). The original mausoleum was designed by the architect Qemal Butka, and was inaugurated on 30 December 1935, for Sadijé, the King's mother, who had died the previous year ...
The palace-house was commanded to build by King Hussein of Jordan in the late 1970s and was designed by Spanish architect César Manrique. Its name is due to the fact that in the same place there was a mareta, that is to say, a cistern that served to collect rainwater and as an animal drinker.