Sakkara Pyramid Hello my friends, we will now take you for a tour to see the most exciting sites in Egypt. Sakkara Pyramid, it is sometimes called “The Step Pyramid”.

 Today it is considered as one of the oldest stone structure built by men in the ancient world and for the first time the ancient Egyptians would attempt to use limestone, the entire pyramid is built of small bricks of limestone, which remained for more than 4700 years!

It was built for King Zoser to be a tomb. King zoser is considered as one of the greatest kings of the third dynasty (2721-2780 BC). This pyramid was designed and built by his great architect Imhotep.

The pyramid is built in the shape of steps, that is why they call it “The Step Pyramid”, raising the height of 60 meters and consisting of 6 steps on top of each other each is smaller than the one below.

The pyramid is surrounded by a rectangular enclosure wall that measures 277*544 meters mostly ruined today but it was originally ten meters high. You will be able to see parts of it.

 In the southern eastern part of the wall you will find an entrance that leads you to a colonnade that has 40 columns. Each column is attached to the wall behind, they are called engaged columns, they were built in a way to ensure the endurance of the heavy weight of the ceiling.

 Between the columns there are large numbers of little rooms created in between, they once contained statues representing king zoser as ruler of upper and Lower Egypt.

The long hypostyle hall leads to an open court yard. This vast empty space was to be used by the king performing the rituals of the jubilee feast called the Hep-Sed festival. One of the rituals performed by kings of Ancient Egypt to ensure that they are able to rule the country for 30 upcoming years.

To the right wing of the open court yard, Imhotep the architect of king zoser built a temple known as the Hep-Sed temple, for the king to be able to practice that ritual in the after life.

 Next to the step pyramid complex on the southern side you will see the ruined pyramid of king Unas, dates back to the end of the 5th dynasty. It is the first pyramid inside of which we find inscription decorating the walls of the burial chamber, they are more than 700 incantations which are supposed to help the deceased king throughout the afterlife and they are known as the pyramid texts.