The Step Pyramid
The 1992 earthquake seriously damaged the internal structure of the pyramid. For this reason, restoration work began in 2006 and lasted for 14 years through many difficulties. In 2011, the works suffered an interruption due to the revolution, now it's open to visitors and tourists from all over the world.
The Step Pyramid of King Djoser at Saqqara is one of the most important things to do in Cairo or maybe in all of Egypt. This structure shows us the development of pyramid construction. It is the initial pyramid constructed in Egypt and while it is not a ‘true pyramid’ with smooth sides, like the Giza Pyramids and the Bent Pyramid, and the Red Pyramid of Dahshur.
The Bent Pyramid of Snefru
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Inside the Step Pyramid
The Step Pyramid complex at Saqqara is the first large-scale cut-stone structure in the world that consists of six steps, superimposed on top of one another. Djoser’s architect decided to stack several of these structures to create a more imposing monument to the pharaoh, which stands 203 feet tall.
The most famous scientist that has to be mentioned whenever we talk about Djoser Step Pyramid at Saqqara is Jean-Philippe Lauer, who is a French archeologist that restored and reconstructed the damaged parts of the complex.
On the north side of the pyramid, the pyramid temple is distinguished, whereas in the following pyramid complexes it is always seen on the east side. The Step Pyramid complex is surrounded by a wall of limestone 10.5 m high known as the palace façade, which imitates bound bundles of reeds. The overall structure imitates mudbrick. The wall has 14 dummy doors, but only one real entrance, in the south corner of the east façade, is for the living. The remaining doors are known as false doors, for the king's use in the afterlife.
Then we enter the roofed colonnade passageway with a limestone ceiling made from whole tree trunks that led to a massive stone imitation of two open doors was a hall with twenty pairs of limestone columns built to look like bundles of plant stems and reaching a height of 6.6 m. The columns were not free-standing but were attached to the wall projections. Between the columns on both sides of the hall were small chambers, which were suggested to be for each of the provinces of Upper and Lower Egypt. At the end of the colonnade was the transverse hypostyle hall with eight columns connected in pairs by blocks of limestone. There are curved stones inside the judiciary that are thought to be markers associated with the Heb-sed festival, an important ritual completed by Egyptian kings when they completed 30 years to renew their powers. We reserve you an indescribable welcome in this blessed land of Egypt with the help of our qualified and ready guides.
If you want to know about Giza and see what it looks like, you can find a lot of information and pictures of a special building called the Mosque Of Taghri Bardi In Cairo. It will teach you more about how Giza was made a long time ago.
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