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Imhotep built the first pyramid around 2670 BCE — this man was an architect, doctor, AND got deified later
Pharaoh Djoser's architect Imhotep looked at flat mastaba tombs and said 'what if we stack them?' The Step Pyramid at Saqqara was the world's first monumental stone building. Imhotep was so cracked at everything — architecture, medicine, writing — that Egyptians literally made him a god centuries later.
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