Egypt has finally reopened Djoser’s Step Pyramid after a $6.6 million restoration process that lasted more than 14 years. The pyramid was the first ever built, 4,700 years ago. Djoser’s Step Pyramid is also a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the restorations for the famed pyramid started on 2006, as Reuters detailed:
“Today we celebrate the completion of the project of warding off the danger and maintaining and restoring the first and oldest remaining pyramid in Egypt,” said tourism and antiquities minister Khaled al-Anani.
The structure was designed by Imhotep, described by some as the world’s first architect.
“We are in awe as to how he was able to create this structure, which has remained standing for 4,700 years,” said Anani.
Restoration work stopped in 2011 after Egypt’s popular uprising that toppled longtime President Hosni Mubark, but resumed at the end of 2013.
Djoser’s Step Pyramid, the first large-scale stone construction in history and the largest pyramidal funerary complex, is located at Saqqara archaeological site, west of Cairo.
The 60-metre-high pyramid consists of six stacked steps over a burial shaft tomb which is 28 meters deep and seven meters wide.
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Clearly this is the most logical, most humane thing they could've done with 6.6 million dollars in a place like Egypt. Pass the pancakes, CUZ THE SARCASM IS THICK. OH YES.
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