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  1. A village in Egypt, 16 km/10 mi S of Cairo,
  2. with 20 pyramids, of which the oldest (third
  3. dynasty) is the `Step Pyramid' designed by
  4. Imhotep, whose own tomb here was the nucleus
  5. of the Aesklepieion, a centre of healing in
  6. the ancient world.
  7.