Legend Of The Stepped Pyramid 😲 The First Stone Building In The History هرم سقارة المدرج

The step pyramid of King Djoser and his funeral complex in Saqqara Covering an area of eight kilometers, the necropolis of Saqqara is the largest in Egypt. Historically it is also the most important as all the main dynasties are represented, from the first up to the Ptolemaic and Persian eras. Rising like a citadel surrounded by pyramids and mastabas of all periods, the funerary structures of Djoser represent the ideal center. To the north a series of quite beautiful tombs spreads out, including the pyramid of Teti and the Serapeum. Partron of the necropolis was the god Sokar "and the area is named after him" often portrayed clothed in green and with a hyena's head.
Splendid images of the monumental site of Saqqara dominated by the step pyramid that, was the last resting place of Djoser. The most fascinating element in the king's funerary chamber is the decoration of the walls "detail below" consisting of thousands of blue and green majolica tiles representing bundles of rushes. The horizontal limestone moldings are similar to the cords that bound the stalks of the papyrus.

The Step Pyramid a residence for eternity
Although the third dynasty actually began with the king Sankhat, of whom little is known despite a reign that lasted for eighteen years, the real founder is considered to be Djoser, a name derived from "geser" in Egyptian meaning sacred and whose importance is such that his name is written in red ink in the Turin Canon of kings. Djoser is Saqqara and Saqqara is Djoser perhaps only in the case of Abu Simbel and Ramesses II has a king been so closely identified with his architectural monument. The majestic step pyramid of Djose, at the center of the funerary complex of Saqqara, is the oldest structure in the world entirely built of stone. Discovered in 1821 by the Prussian General von Minutoli, it was systematically explored and studied some twenty years later by the German archaeologist Lepsuis.Originally it was constructed in the form of a normal mastaba. The mastaba "which in Arab means bench or shelf" was the tomb of nobility and court dignitaries, rectangular in shape and with slightly inward- leaning walls. A second mastaba was added on top of the first, then a third and several more until a pyramid of six gradually diminishing the Sumerian Ziggurat.
As it stands today, the pyramid is 62 meters in height and the base measures 109 by 125 meters. The burial chamber of the king was located almost at the center of the pyramid, at the bottom of a large vertical shaft 28 meters deep.
From here a labyrinth of rooms, corridors, chambers and passageway and protecting the eternal rest of the sovereign spreads outwards over an area of more than five kilometers. The shards of about forty thousand alabaster pots, plates, bowls and vases were found here and some four thousand have been restored to their original form. The complex of Saqqara in enclosed by a rectangular peripheral limestone wall ten meters high with 14 false doorway creating recesses and reliefs in imitation of the facade of the royal palace of Memphis.

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