Revisionist archaeologists claim that a sycamore-wood bird statue found at this site gives early evidence of flight, as it roughly resembles a toy glider. Jean-Philippe Lauer spent his career excavating a complex at this site, which is the location of a building with a destroyed superstructure that has been dubbed “headless.” The “House of the North” and the “House of the South” are found at this site, where Cecil Firth found a limestone statue in a hidden chamber called a serdab. Religious texts were carved on the subterranean walls of structures in this site, including one dedicated to the ruler Unas (“YOO-niss”). At this site, a designer created a new type of structure by building a single square mastaba (“MAH-stah-bah”) and then adding five successively smaller mastabas on top of it. This site was the royal necropolis of Memphis. For 10 points, name this site where Imhotep designed a step pyramid to bury the pharaoh Djoser ■END■
ANSWER: Saqqara (“suh-CAH-ruh”) [or Saqqara necropolis; or Sakkara; prompt on Memphis, Men-nefer, Manf, or Mit Rahina until “Memphis” is read; until “step pyramid” is read, prompt on step pyramid of Djoser or equivalents by asking “what broader site is the structure part of?”]
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