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This sepulchral iconography began in Egypt, the portrait statue of King Djoser (second king of the 3rd dynasty [c. 2686 c. 2613 bc]), found in the serdab (worship chamber; from the Arabic word for cellar) of the Step Pyramid being the oldest known example.
Additional contradictory findings are the Horus and Nebty names of kings discovered in the Great Southern Gallery in the necropolis of the (Third dynasty) king Djoser at Sakkara.
The brick mastaba tombs of the early kings and nobles suddenly gave way to the stone technics of King Djoser's ceremonial complex at Ṣaqqārah, the construction of which is associated with his adviser and builder Imhotep.
A generation after Khasekhemwy, King Djoser introduced burial pyramids.
Two notable sites of antiquity are Abydos, with monuments of Old, Middle, and New Kingdom Egypt; and Bayt Khallāf, near Sūhāj town, the site of a mastaba (mud-brick tomb) probably of King Djoser (3rd dynasty; c. 2650 c. 2575 bce).
The first physician to emerge is Imhotep, chief minister to King Djoser in the 3rd millennium bce, who designed one of the earliest pyramids, the Step Pyramid at Ṣaqqārah, and who was later regarded as the Egyptian god of medicine and identified with the Greek god Asclepius.
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Lauer and Firth relied on the "heretic Peribsen" theory to explain the enormous quantity of stone vessels inscribed with the name of First and Second dynasty kings found beneath Djoser's pyramid in bags bearing seals of Khasekhemwy and Djoser.
The Step Pyramid of Djoser, second king of the 3rd dynasty, was built within a vast enclosure on a commanding site at Ṣaqqārah, overlooking the city of Memphis.
South of the Early Dynastic cemetery lies the Step Pyramid complex of Djoser, second king of the 3rd dynasty (c. 2650 c. 2575 bce).
Djoser, the second king of the 3rd dynasty, was the builder of the Step Pyramid of Ṣaqqārah, the earliest royal foundation at Memphis and the first important stone building in Egypt.
Djoser, the second king of the 3rd dynasty, employing Imhotep as architect, undertook for the first time the construction of a mastaba entirely of stone; it was 8 metres (26 feet) high and had a square ground plan with sides of about 63 metres (207 feet) each.
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