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The enclosure wall of Djoser's pyramid complex, restored by J. P. Lauer. His collaboration with Firth working very well, Lauer's position was regularly renewed, and by 1928, he was still in Saqqara. There he met Marguerite Jouguet, the daughter of the renowned Hellenist Pierre Jouguet , who had been appointed director of the Institut Français ...
Egyptian Museum: Base of a Djoser statue with royal titulary Niche with panel showing the king Netjerykhet (Djoser) walking towards the shrine of Horus of Behedet (modern Edfu). 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.
Imhotep (/ ɪ m ˈ h oʊ t ɛ p /; [1] Ancient Egyptian: ỉỉ-m-ḥtp "(the one who) comes in peace"; [2] fl. c. 2625 BC) 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.
The Turin King List scribe wrote Djoser's name in red ink, which indicates the Ancient Egyptians' recognition of this king's historical importance in their culture. In any case, Djoser is the best known king of this dynasty, for commissioning his vizier Imhotep to build the earliest surviving pyramids, the Step Pyramid.
Imhotep – Architect and Vizier to Djoser, eventually deified as a healer god [17] Khepri – A solar creator god, often treated as the morning aspect of Ra and represented by a scarab beetle [18] Khnum – A Ram god, the Tutelary deity of Elephantine, who was said to control the Nile flood and give life to gods and humans [19]
Several architects occur in worldwide mythology, including Daedalus, builder of the Labyrinth, in Greek myth. In the Bible, Nimrod is considered the creator of the Tower of Babel, and King Solomon built Solomon's Temple with the assistance of the architect Hiram. In Hinduism, the palaces of the gods were built by the architect and artisan ...
The pyramid of Djoser, [a] sometimes called the Step Pyramid of Djoser or Zoser, Step Pyramid of Horus Neterikhet is an archaeological site in the Saqqara necropolis, Egypt, northwest of the ruins of Memphis. [4] It is the first Egyptian pyramid to be built. The 6-tier, 4-sided structure is the earliest colossal stone building in Egypt. [5]
The development of finite element programs has led to the ability to accurately predict the stresses in complex structures, and allowed great advances in structural engineering design and architecture. In the 1960s and 70s computational analysis was used in a significant way for the first time on the design of the Sydney Opera House roof. Many ...