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The History of Egypt Podcast

04: The Step Pyramid

45 min • 26 januari 2013

"No Stairway to Heaven - denied!" As Egypt's "Third Dynasty" began, a new monument took shape. King Netjerykhet Djoser and his architect, Imhotep, created something unusual. The Step Pyramid rose on the western horizon, ushering in a new era of monument building...


Select Bibliography:

  • Erik Hornung, Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt: the One and the Many, 1996 (Amazon).
  • Mark Lehner, The Complete Pyramids, 2008 (Amazon).
  • John Romer, A History of Egypt: from the First Farmers to the Great Pyramid, 2013 (Amazon).
  • Toby Wilkinson, Early Dynastic Egypt, 2001 (Amazon).
  • David Wengrow, The Archaeology of Early Egypt, 2006 (Amazon).
  • Robert Wenke, The Ancient Egyptian State, 2009 (Amazon).


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