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It was in Imhotep s day that the Heliopolian cult of Amun established the primary philosophies of Old Kingdom Egypt. They formalized these philosophies in the Pyramid Texts, so-called because pharaohs of the fifth and sixth dynasties wrote them in seven pyramids. These dynasties existed in the period 2800BCE to 2470BCE. 

The Egyptians raised Temples to Imhotep in Memphis and in Philae, on the Island of Elephantine. The Greeks subsequently worshipped him as Asclepius, the god of medicine and the son of Apollo. The great Imhotep is still highly regarded by the medical profession. 

The only other mortal to share the divinity of Imhotep was a sage of the eighteenth dynasty called Amen Hetep Son of Hapu. His cult shared a healing shrine with Imhotep at the Funerary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut in 1470BCE. This was located at Deir El Bahri in the Western Desert near Thebes. It operated until Christian times. 

Amen Hetep Son of Hapu was Chief of Works under Amenhotep 

He moved mountains of quartzite to erect the colossal monuments of Amenhotep III. These included the Colossi of Memnon, which are two great images of the seated Amenhotep III carved from the fine reddish sandstone of Gebel el-Ahmar. They are still at Luxor, near the road to the western desert. These statues are all that is left of Amenhotep Ill s mortuary temple, the largest in Thebes. Amen Hetep Son of Hapu is also famous for constructing a complex of funerary Temples under the cliffs of Western Thebes. 

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