Ancient Egyptians had none of our technology, but managed to complete the megalith almost unnaturally fast.

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 ...

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

Scientists have had to piece together clues as to how pyramids were constructed.

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 ...

Scientists have proposed a groundbreaking new theory on how Egypt's Great Pyramid was built, positing that they had to use a pulley and counterweight weight system to erect it so quickly. It was a ...

A Catalan scientist claims the pyramids could be 12,000 years old. Here’s what the study says and why experts remain ...

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, ...