Imhotep Museum
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The Imhotep Museum[1] is located at the foot of the Saqqara necropolis complex, near Memphis, in Egypt and was bilt as part of strategic site managment
The Museum was opened on 26 April 2006, and displays finds from the site, in commemoration of the ancient Egyptian architect Imhotep Prof. Zahi Hawass said: I felt that we should call it the Imhotep Museum in tribute to the first architect to use stone rather than perishable materials for the construction on a large scale. This man was second only to the King and in the late period was worshiped as god"' The Museum has a hall dedicated also to a man, an important egyptologist, who excavated the Djoser complex for the all his life: the [|French]] Egyptologist Jean-Philippe Lauer. The Museum has five large hall in which the people can admire masterpieces from Saqqara as for example the Greco-Roman mummy discovered by Zahi Hawass during the excavation at Teti's pyramid complex or the magnificent pair statue of high priest of Mut Amenemhotep and wife belonging to 19th Dynasty and found in vicinity of the causeway of Unas complex. In the entrance hall the visitor is welcomed by a fragment of the Djoser statue in which is possible to read the name of the king and for the first time in the history the name of the architect Imhotep. This found initially was in the great Egyptian Museum in Cairo. The second hall permit to see recent finds and trhay will be rotated in the display. The third hall is dedicated to Imhotep's architecture, it exihibits examples of elements from the Step Pyramd Complex. The fourth hall is called Saqqara style and shows vessels and statues in wooden and stones. The fifth hall is called Saqqara tomb and permits to see objects used in burial from the 6th Dynasty through the New Kingdom.
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