Djéser et la IIIe Dynastie: Imhotep, Saqqara, Memphis, les Pyramides à degrés. Photographie Othon Friesz

Othon Friesz

and in its diversity

offers fresh information on the complex coexistence of various cultural groups on Sai with slightly different approaches to their cultural and social affinities during the New Kingdom

Magnificently illustrated by the pencil of Florence Gendre

The key phases in the chronology of early Gothic sculpture are traced

Djéser et la IIIe Dynastie: Imhotep, Saqqara, Memphis, les Pyramides à degrés. Photographie Othon FrieszPharaoh Djoser, who ruled the country in the mid 27th century BC, is one of these prominent figures. A promoter of the monarchical ideal and a great builder, he left to posterity the image of an innovative sovereign. He dominates, by the scale of his achievements, a third dynasty that 'he founded and whose other kings still appear today as fleeting figures. Djoser is inseparable from Imhotep, celebrated by tradition as the inventor of stone