A groundbreaking study suggests the ancient Egyptians may have used hydraulic power before we could have imagined this skill. They did not utilize just ramps and manpower, to build the Step Pyramid of ...

Engineers might have cracked the code for how the ancient Egyptians built their first pyramids. A new study suggests that water power, not just brute force, helped construct the iconic Step Pyramid of ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Pyramid of Djoser is a six-tiered, four-sided step pyramid that was built around 4,700 years ...

Scientists believe they’ve discovered the remains of a secret entrance inside one of Egypt’s oldest pyramids after over 4,500 ...

For 5,000 years scholars, generals, and mystics have been fascinated by the Egyptian pyramids. That obsession persists in the ...

The Step Pyramid of King Djoser, on the Saqqara plateau in northern Egypt, is an awesome feat of engineering, and experts still do not understand the techniques used to erect it. Built about 4,500 ...

New findings from the Tombos archaeological site in Sudan have challenged long-standing beliefs about the ancient Egyptian pyramids. Researchers now suggest that these monumental tombs, once thought ...

The Step Pyramid stands more than 200 feet tall and is made from stones weighing more than 650 pounds. Some other researchers are not yet convinced by the idea that it was built using a hydraulics ...

The pyramids in and around Giza have presented a fascinating puzzle for millennia. How did ancient Egyptians move limestone blocks, some weighing more than a ton, without using wheels? Why were these ...

A "long-lost" branch of the Nile in Egypt may explain the location of several ancient pyramids, researchers have suggested. In a study published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, an ...