The Step Pyramid

The centrepiece of the Saqqara complex is the Step Pyramid of Djoser (The Horus Netjerykhet). Djoser’s Step Pyramid in its final stage rose in six steps to a height of 60m with a base measuring 121m x 109m.

It was Djoser, ruler at the beginning of the Third Dynasty, who chose Saqqara as the site of the first pyramid. The famous Step Pyramid was built from a series of smaller mastaba superstructures set one on top of the other.

The architect of Djoser’s Step Pyramid was Imhotep, one of the few non-royal Egyptians who became a legend. He was renowned in Egypt for his achievement in building the Step Pyramid and for using stone for the first time as building material instead of mudbrick.

Successive generations of Egyptians admired Djoser’s Step Pyramid. Visitors even left graffiti expressing their astonishment at the size of the monument more than a millennium after it was built.
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