The Step Pyramid of Zoser at Saqqara is examined from the point of view of constructive geometry and mensuration. The evidence is that it is based on geometric proportion, though this may simply be the outcome of peg-and-chord technology employed in setting out the monument. The procedure that the architect may have followed in setting out the monument is Ad Quadratum in its most elemental form.
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