Imhotep served as Chancellor and as High Priest of the sun god Ra at Heliopolis.
He was said to be a son of the ancient Egyptian demiurge Ptah, his mother being a mortal named Khredu-ankh.
Sleep temples were hospitals of sorts, healing a variety of ailments, perhaps many of them psychological in nature.
In Greece, they were built in honor of Asclepios, the Greek god of medicine and were called Asclepieions.
In 1928, Mortimer Wheeler unearthed a Roman sleep temple at Lydney Park, Gloucestershire, with the assistance of a young J.R.R.