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Imhotep


Statuette of Imhotep,
chancellor to the pharaoh, priest of Ra and architect.
Bronze, Ptolemaic Egypt (332-30 BC).
Image is released under a Creative Commons License.



Imhotep (whose name means "He comes in peace") was the first great architect of the Old Kingdom in Egypt and was responsible for building the pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara.

Biography imhotep name

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    • He lived about 2700 BC. Imhotep was also a scribe, inventor, magician, vizier (counsellor) of the Pharaoh Djoser and the founder of Egyptian medicine. This is his name expressed in Egyptian hieroglyphics:

    In the New Kingdom Imhotep was worshiped as a god.

    Scribes sacrificed to Imhotep before beginning to write by offering a drop of ink.

    The exact details of Imhotep's life are not known. The inscription of his name at the base of a statue at Saqqara, has led some researchers to believe that he might have been a brother or son of the Pharaoh Djoser (3rd Dynasty).

    However, in Egyptian tradition Imhotep was regarded as being of humble or