The first ever pyramid - the Step Pyramid

Traditionally Egyptian tombs were sealed with a slab of concrete on top. A very clever achitect , Imhotep, created this one for King Zoser (Djoser - 2667-2648 BC) in the traditional way. However you can never complete a person's tomb while they are alive as it would mean it would be their time to die. Imhotep realsied he was going to finish the slab while Zoser was still young and strong, so he built a second slap on top of the firts, then a third and so on. This was the first pyramid, built over 4650 years ago!

Egypt, land of the Pharoahs

December 30th 2007
This blog should more accurately be called ‘a trial in sleep deprivation’ More on that soon… Well you may or may not know that Egypt was kind of thrust upon us - or at least chosen without our usual thorough planning. At about the same time as we reached the conclusion that we wanted to go somewhere hot for Christmas - the Arctic Circle in Norway and the freezing wet & windy Edinburgh for H ... read more

Africa » Egypt » Upper Egypt » Aswan

The regularity and richness of the annual Nile River flood, coupled with semi-isolation provided by deserts to the east and west, allowed for the development of one of the world's great civilizations. A unified kingdom arose circa 3200 B.C. and a ser... ... read more

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