Greek Imouthes
flourished 27th century BC, Memphis, Egypt
Egyptian sage and astrologer, later worshiped as the god of medicine.
In Greece he was identified with Asclepius . Imhotep was chief minister to the Egyptian king Djoser and is remembered as a skilled physician as well as the architect of the step-pyramid at Ptah and the war goddess Sekhmet. The cult of Imhotep reached its zenith in Greco-Roman times, when sick people slept in his temples with the hope that the god would reveal remedies to them in dreams.