King Djoser Facts :
Kind Djoser is the founder of the third family and was the first Egyptian king to delegate a pyramid.
Djoser inherited the throne from his father Khasekhemwy and ruled Egypt for three decades.
Djoser was fond of architecture and construction and soon began to add his own traces to the Egyptian scene.
Its most famous building was the Djoser pyramid, where six rectangular pieces in squares and stacked on top of each other.
The final monument was about 21 meters (70 feet) and was the first real pyramid in Egypt.
He carried out some campaigns, in the Sinai, where he mostly subdued outspoken subjects.
Djoser’s political activities:
At the beginning of his reign, he resided in Abydos, where his tomb was begun to be built, at Beth Khalaf. However, he later moved his residence to nearby Memphis, the country’s capital.
This pharaoh ordered several military expeditions to the Sinai Peninsula, during which the nomadic tribes were dominated, to extract the valuable minerals of the region, such as turquoise and copper. It was also strategically important as a link between Asia and the Nile Valley. It may have fixed the southern border of the kingdom at Elephantine, next to the first waterfall of the Nile.
Djoser was the first pharaoh to live only at Memphis instead of traveling between palaces. He also extended Egypt’s power south to Aswan and north to the Sinai.
Djoser, he is credited with saving Egypt from a seven-year famine by rebuilding the Temple of Khnum, the god of the source of the Nile River.
During his reign lived (Imhotep), being the inventor of the art of building with cut stone. In addition, he also devoted himself to literature.
pyramid of Djoser:
During his reign, usually between 2737 and 2717 B.C., which was a time of architectural flourishing and splendor, Imhotep, the designer of the stepped pyramid of Saqqara considered the first major monumental stone complex in Egypt and the world
the step pyramid of Saqqara is considered the first of its kind to be built and valued as a masterpiece of Egyptian architecture. Built of limestone, it is sixty-one meters high and was the first royal monumental tomb and one of the oldest stone structures in Egypt. The pyramid is surrounded by an extensive funerary complex that occupies more than fifteen hectares and was also designed by Imhotep.
Djoser statue:
The statue of Djoser, now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, is the oldest known life-size Egyptian statue. Today on the site in Saqqara where it was found, there is a copy of the statue in place of the original one. The statue was found during the excavations of the Antiquities Service and 1924-1925.
Djoser rule:
Because of the magnitude of the buildings built during his reign, mainly because of the pyramid of Saqqara, that is why some scholars argue that Djoser must have ruled at least 29 years
Although he appears to have started an unfinished tomb in Abidos, Djoser was eventually buried in his famous pyramid in Saqqara, built of limestone. It is huge and contains only a narrow corridor leading close to the middle of the monument, ending in a rough chamber where the entrance to the tomb was hidden. This interior construction was later filled with rubble, as it was no longer useful. The pyramid was once 62 meters high and had a base of approximately 125 X 109 meters, covered with polished white limestone.
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