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  Egyptian pyramids -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
This pyramid was also the subject of one of antiquities' earliest restoration attempts, conducted under the auspices of one of the sons of (King of Egypt between 1304 and 1237 BC who built many monuments) Ramses II.
Saqqara is also the location of the incomplete step pyramid of Djozer's successor (additional info and facts about Sekhemkhet) Sekhemkhet.
Archaeologists believe that had this pyramid been completed it would have been larger than Djozer's.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/eg/egyptian_pyramids.htm   (2606 words)

  
 Corpus of Egyptian Early Dynastic Inscriptions on Stone Vessels
Most of the inscribed specimen have been found at Abydos Umm el-Qa'ab (by E. Amelineau, W.M.F. Petrie) and Saqqara (Step Pyramid complex of Netjerykhet and Sekhemkhet and North Saqqara tombs), but there are minor amounts from a large number of Upper, Middle and Lower Egyptian cemeteries.
With the Fourth Dynasty the inscriptions on stone vessels appeared again and they became numerous once again under the Fifth and Sixth Dynasty kings.
is known before Snofrw; but Sekhemkhet used old stone vessels marked by ink inscr.
xoomer.virgilio.it /francescoraf/hesyra/aufgefasse.htm   (2216 words)

  
 Serpent Holder Mythos - Egypt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
As a builder, Imhotep is the first master architects who we know by name.
He is not only credited as the first pyramid architect, who built Djoser's Step Pyramid complex at Saqqara, but he may have had a hand in the building of Sekhemkhet's unfinished pyramid, and also possibly with the establishment of the Edfu Temple, but that is not certain.
The Step Pyramid remains today one of the most brilliant architecture wonders of the ancient world and is recognized as the first monumental stone structure.
www.startistics.com /ophiuchus/worldmythos3.htm   (1265 words)

  
 Imhotep - Great Buildings Online
Although Imhotep has been credited with innumerable architectural achievements, the only certainty is that he built the complex of King Neterikhet at Saqqara.
His name inscribed on the north side of the enclosure wall of Sekhemkhet's unfinished pyramid suggest that he was also responsible for this later project.
Imhotep is comsidered to be the earliest known named architect.
www.greatbuildings.com /architects/Imhotep.html   (175 words)

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