I hope you don’t mind that I do something a bit different for this week’s installment of this series… Rather than going back into my archive of images captured over the past quarter century, I’d like to go way back into antiquity.
Here’s that jump back in time…
In the Third Dynasty, King Netjerykhet (c.2667-2648 BCE) [better known as Djoser] ordered his chief official Imhotep to build him something spectacular for his burial tomb. Imhotep created a funerary structure that would lead to the smooth-sided pyramids used by future pharaohs. Rather than the mastabas that were used by royals and elite Egyptians for their burial, he created a stacked form of mastabas that became this step pyramid.
I hope you enjoy this significant moment in Egyptian history.
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