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Imhotep

Architect & Polymath|c. 2650 BCE
North Africa
Imhotep

Imhotep was the world's first recorded polymath — architect, physician, and chief minister to Pharaoh Djoser. He designed the Step Pyramid at Saqqara, the earliest monumental stone structure on Earth. Revered as a god of medicine in later centuries, his genius preceded Hippocrates by more than two thousand years.

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