{"id":19298,"date":"2024-01-14T09:10:28","date_gmt":"2024-01-14T03:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=19298"},"modified":"2025-04-05T16:34:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T11:04:50","slug":"saqqara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/saqqara\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Facts about Saqqara"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Saqqara<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is part of the\u00a0necropolis (burial place)\u00a0of the\u00a0ancient Egyptian city of Memphis.<\/li>\n<li>It is located on the\u00a0western bank of the Nile, 40 kilometers\u00a0south of Cairo, the capital of Egypt.<\/li>\n<li>Saqqara\u2019s name derives from the name of the burial god Sokar.<\/li>\n<li>It was an\u00a0active burial ground for more than 3500 years and is\u00a0Egypt\u2019s largest archaeological site.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is\u00a0where the transition from\u00a0the use of the\u00a0mastaba\u00a0(ancient Egyptian tombs, in the form of a massive brick or stone mound with battered walls on a rectangular base)\u00a0as a burial site to the pyramid design that is more popularly known today\u00a0took place.<\/li>\n<li>Sakkara is\u00a0best known for the Step Pyramid, the\u00a0oldest of Egypt&#8217;s 97 pyramids.\n<ul>\n<li>It was built in\u00a02700 BC for King Djoser (Zoser) of the 3rd Dynasty\u00a0by the architect and genius Imhotep, who was the\u00a0first to build stone tombs\u00a0in honor of the king&#8217;s majesty.<\/li>\n<li>Today, it is considered\u00a0one of the oldest stone structures built by man, and it was the\u00a0first time the Ancient Egyptians would\u00a0attempt to use limestone.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Zoser\u00eds Pyramid is\u00a0entirely built of limestone, small bricks of limestone, and not of the best quality, and yet it has\u00a0remained for more than 4700 years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) Who was Imhotep?<\/h3>\n<p>Imhotep was an Egyptian polymath (a person expert in many areas of learning) best known as the architect of King Djoser&#8217;s Step Pyramid at Saqqara. Although his Step Pyramid is considered his greatest achievement, he was also remembered for his medical treatises which regarded disease and injury as naturally occurring instead of punishments sent by gods or inflicted by spirits or curses.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/archaeology\/ancient-egyptians\/ancient-egyptian-mummy-masks-tombs-and-god-of-silence-statue-discovered-at-saqqara\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Ancient Egyptian mummy masks, tombs and &#8216;god of silence&#8217; statue discovered at Saqqara<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saqqara is part of the necropolis (burial place) of the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19299,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}