The graveyard extends close to the antique town Memphis. It is called Sakkara. Although the architect Imhotep didn't think of building a pyramid at all the most famous building is the step pyramid of Djoser. He wanted to construct a quadratic Mastaba for Djoser. Afterwards it crossed his mind to enlarge the building in five more stages of working to a pyramid with altogether six steps. The steps were suggested to enable the pharaoh the ascension into heaven. So that could get to his real father - the god of the sun - re.

We ourselves get to the Unas pyramid via a step-up after we passed the ticket counter. This pyramid is that little that it isn't noticed as a pyramid by most of the visitors at all.
Much more impressive are the first roofs made out of stone, which are today still borne by pillars of stone. Probably, the stonemasons based the stone on the archetype of at that time commonly used building materials: the pillars as tree trunks, the roof out of stone as thatched roof. But in doing so they weren’t able to build free-standing pillars, so that every pillar is connected with the outer wall by one side.