A new study suggests that the Step Pyramid of Djoser may have been built using a system way ahead of its time.

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In a preprint paper, scientists concluded that the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, Egypt—believed to be the oldest of the ...

For thousands of years, the pyramids of Egypt have stood as the ultimate engineering mystery. Without cranes, engines, or steel tools, ancient builders raised millions of massive stones into precise ...

The Pyramids of Giza, seen here with the Milky Way in the background, are not Egypt's oldest pyramids. Pyramids are iconic symbols of the ancient pharaohs' power and technological prowess that still ...

How an ancient civilization was able to build such large structures without the assistance of modern technology has baffled the world for generations. And while the popular theory that they were ...

“No Jews built the pyramids because Jews didn’t exist at the period when the pyramids were built,” Mazar said. Dorothy Resig, an editor of Biblical Archaeology Review in Washington, D.C., said the ...

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 ...