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The Step Pyramid By Imhotep: The God Of Medicine

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Imhotep was know as the god of medicine. Imhotep means “he who comes in peace.” Imhotep was an architect, an astronomer, and a physician. He is said to have been the inventor of the Pyramids. Imhotep was the second hand to Djoser. According to our textbook, it was Imhotep who concluded that pharaohs needed a great monument to express who he was. Imhotep built the Step Pyramid at Saqqara in Egypt, also know as the Step Pyramid of King Djoser. The Step Pyramid at Saqqara took twenty years to build and was created with cut stone and was two hundred feet high.. As the pyramids were built to showcase the power and prestige of the kings, it was also to serve as the resting place for pharaohs. Not only was Imhotep an inventor of the pyramids but
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