The Step Pyramid of King Djoser, on the Saqqara plateau in northern Egypt, is an awesome feat of engineering ... advancing a ...

The step pyramid, located in the Saqqara necropolis, which lies on a limestone plateau on the west bank of the Nile River, ...

Waterpower may have given a big lift to builders of Egypt’s oldest ... 62-meter-tall pyramid, scientists propose August 5 in PLOS ONE. Controlled flows of water into and out of a large shaft ...

A new study aims to answer the centuries-old question of how the Great Pyramids were built thousands of years ago, and its findings have provided an unexpected possible answer: water. Though ...

A new study theorizes that ancient Egyptians constructed the world's first pyramid using much more advanced technology than some Egyptologists believe.

A recent study conducted by Xavier Landreau and other researchers has presented an innovative theory about the construction of the first Egyptian pyramid, the Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, proposing ...

A new study suggests that the first of seven key pyramids in Egypt, the Step Pyramid of Djoser ... have pushed the blocks into place. If proved out, this research shows the Egyptians had a ...

For years, Egyptologists have hotly debated how the massive pyramids of ancient Egypt were built more than ... as well as filter out sediment and dirt so they would not clog the water passageways.

The construction of ancient Egypt’s oldest known pyramid may have benefited from a water elevator capable of lifting 50 to 100 tonnes of stones at a time. The suggestion draws upon the fact that ...