See how Egyptian engineers might have used water to shape history’s greatest monuments.

Few discoveries stop Egyptologists in their tracks, but this one did. During a routine excavation near Djoser’s Step Pyramid, the oldest of Egypt's pyramids, archaeologists brushed aside centuries of ...

Archaeologists working at Saqqara uncovered a 3,200-year-old tomb near the Step Pyramid of Djoser, revealing new details about an Egyptian official named Panehsy. The mudbrick tomb includes three ...

"The dominant appearance of the Step Pyramid inside the complex of Djoser is designed to denote the divine position of the dead king. The different structures inside represent a selection of units ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. "Saqqâra (Ṣaqqārah) is a large ...

There are more than 100 pyramids in Egypt, but this was the first, built during the reign of Pharoah Djoser (2630 B.C. to 2611 B.C) as a grand mausoleum for himself. Previous pharaohs’ tombs were flat ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A study suggests the first of seven key pyramids in Egypt, the Step Pyramid of Djoser, was built using a hydraulic lift. Dated to ...

Hydraulic mechanics may have indeed been the driving force behind the construction of ancient Egyptian pyramids. In a preprint paper, scientists concluded that the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, ...