Bugün öğrendim ki: İmhotep'in Mısırlı bir mimar, doktor ve dört firavunun danışmanı olduğunu. MÖ 2667-2600 yıllarında yaşamış olan Imhotep, Hipokrat'tan yaklaşık 2200 yıl önce erken tıp uygulamış ve Saqqara'da Djoser'in basamaklı piramidini tasarlamıştır. Amenhotep dışında tamamen tanrılaştırılan tek Mısırlı.

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[Imhotep](/imhotep/) ([Greek](/disambiguation/greek/) name, _Imouthes_ , c. 2667-2600 BCE) was an [Egyptian](/disambiguation/Egyptian/) polymath (a person expert in many areas of learning) best known as the architect of King [Djoser](/Djoser/)'s Step [Pyramid](/pyramid/) at Saqqara. His name means "He Who Comes in Peace" and he is the only Egyptian besides Amenhotep to be fully deified. In time, he became the god of wisdom and [medicine](/disambiguation/medicine/) (or, according to some sources, god of [science](/science/), medicine, and [architecture](/disambiguation/architecture /)). Imhotep was a priest, vizier to King Djoser (and possibly to the succeeding three kings of the Third Dynasty), a poet, physician, mathematician, astronomer, and architect. Although his Step Pyramid is considered his greatest achievement, he was also remembered for his medical treatises which considered disease and injury as naturally occurring instead of punishments sent by gods or inflicted by spirits or curses. He was deified by the Egyptians in c. 525 BCE and was equated with the demi-god of healing [Asclepius](/Asclepius/) by the Greeks. His works were still extremely popular and influential during the [Roman Empire](/Roman_Empire/) and the emperors [Tiberius](/Tiberius/) and [Claudius](/claudius/) both had their temples inscribed with praise of the benevolent god imhotep.