The Pyramid of Djoser, the oldest of Egypt's iconic pyramids, may have been built with the help of a unique hydraulic lift system, according to a study published August 5, 2024, in the open-access ...

How the great pyramids of Egypt were built has long been a hotly debated open question, given the sheer size and weight of the limestone blocks used for the construction. Numerous speculative (and ...

The Pyramid of Djoser, the oldest of Egypt's iconic pyramids, may have been built with the help of a unique hydraulic lift system, according to researchers. A new study suggests that water may have ...

Map of the Saqqara plateau showing the water course from the Gisr el-Mudir dam to the water treatment facility near Djoser pyramid. The water is then transferred to the pyramid's network of pipes to ...

The renowned Egyptologist and former Egyptian Minister of Antiquities, Zahi Hawass, responds to periodically raised ...

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 deserts ...

The ingenuity of ancient Egyptian engineers may have been even more ahead of their time than we thought. A new study suggests a currently unexplained ancient structure may have been part of a water ...

The pyramids of Egypt are so iconic that it's easy to forget they had to be invented. Somebody, at some point, had to figure out how to build increasingly ambitious stone structures and that process ...

MVRDV’s transformation of the Pyramid of Tirana into a digital hub was inaugurated on the occasion of the Western Balkan Summit on October 16—not coincidentally, the birthday of longtime Albanian ...