Imhotep

Imhotep was the Egyptian architect, alive during the years 2650-2600 B.C, responsible for the first pyramid, a building that would later become an icon for the Land of the Pharaohs. Though he is remembered mainly for his work on King Djoser's, the second king of the Third Dynasty, burial place he is also credited as being the first recorded polymath. His main interest's were in engineering, philosophy, poetry, architecture and medicine.

As well as being one, if not the, most intelligent person in Egypt he was Chancellor to the Pharaoh and was also High Priest to Ra, the main Egyptian deity, and was so revered he late become identified as a god of medicine and the Greeks identified him with their god of medicine Asclepius.

Architecture

He was the chief architect of the king's pyramid, known now as the Step Pyramid because it was really a series of mastabas on top of each other, each one being smaller then the one that preceded it. This pyramid was built at Saqqara - a large flat area that served as a necropolis to the Egyptian royalty and nobles.