Egypt and the search for Imhotep!

Egypt and the search for Imhotep!

Egypt in the past was a lot more fortunate than its neighboring cultures and the luckiest ever to have its renaissance to start 4000 years before Italy and France, a Long time before Michael Angelo and L eonardo Da Vinci to be born! Imhotep our renaissance-man was there. Imhotep was the man of many skills as he was a mathematician, an architect, an Artist, a sculptor, Astronomer a Physician and the minister of Egypt during the third dynasty.
Imhotep greatest achievements was the shifting from the use of wood and mud in construction to the use of stone which required from Imhotep creating the first outstanding architecture based on using wooden reinforcement once to deal with right-angle or oblique structures. Imhotep best evidence on his invention and mastering to the Geometry of triangles is the building of the step pyramid. The same science which was used by the Pyramids of Giza royal architects then was discovered written on the Rhind Mathematical papyrus by the ancient Egyptian Mathematicians from almost 4000 yeas ago and long time before Pythagoras and the Pythagorean theorem to be taught. Now Egypt awaits the rise of Imhotep for a new Renaissance! Written by Yasser Kamel for Museumegypt.2006.