Pyramids in Egypt started to be erected during the reign of Pharaoh Djoser - the third monarch of the dynasty. If in the early dynastic period of the royal tombs were built of brick and dried is a room made of limestone and were quite similar to those of the pyramids of ancient Egypt to which we are accustomed , now, Imhotep - the great architect and a high official at the court of Pharaoh Djoser built a large brick mastabas Beth - Khallaf near Abydos . It was a staircase going up to the top of rubble under construction and the transition to a sloping passage with several rooms of the crypt. Passage closes plitami.Stupenchataya heavy pyramid of Djoser was a symbol of the idea of a staircase which rises straight to heaven or to God , according to another version , was dropped from the sky for divine ascension of the king. Under the new concept included the construction of the pyramids now in its composition and construction of the funerary temple and a fully enclosed space , installed in it a huge statue of the pharaoh.