Word: zoser
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sakkara near where ancient Memphis stood, and said they thought they had found the tomb of Architect Im-Hotep, the Christopher Wren of 5,000 years ago. Besides building King Zoser's famed Step Pyramid at Memphis and other monuments, Im-Hotep founded the sciences of law and medicine along the Nile. By the time of Publicist Tutankhamen (enthroned about 1358 B. C.) his legend was almost as old as Christianity now is to the modern world. In Ptolemaic times (Fourth to First Centuries, B. C.) he was deified...
Perhaps, admitted the diggers, the tomb had been a temporary one for King Zoser, used pending Im-Hotep's completion of the nearby Step Pyramid, under the wall of which it lay. Or perhaps it was Zoser's queen's tomb. The sarcophagus, still hidden, would tell. Meantime the diggers marveled at a maze of deep tunnels, at remains of blue tiling, at a dozen alabaster wine jars...
...lantern slides, are open to the annual subscribers of the Museum. The first, on Tuesday, March 24, at 3 o'clock, will be on "Ethiopia, the Land of Roads"; the second, on March 31, will describe the Pyramid Age; and the third will depict the "Beautiful Temple of Zoser. The lectures will take place at the Museum of Fine Arts...