The step pyramid of Djoser measures almost 200ft high (60m) and is believed to be the first pyramid in Egypt and the oldest building in the world. It was built entirely out of stone by Imhotep in ...

Builders of Egypt’s oldest known pyramid, the nearly 4,700-year-old Step Pyramid ... to hoist stone blocks, used to assemble the six-tiered, roughly 62-meter-tall pyramid of King Djoser.

Little is known about Djoser, but the fact that he was able to build such a massive and innovative structure as the Step Pyramid suggests that during his reign Egypt was politically stable ...

New research suggests that the Step Pyramid of Djoser may have been built using ... nearby canals to power hydraulic lifts, raising heavy stone blocks to construct the Step Pyramid ...

The Djoser Step pyramid in Egypt, built around 2,630 BC, is widely recognized as the oldest. But a study from October claims Indonesia’s Gunung Padang pyramid could date as far back as 25,000 BC ...

Latvian scientists archaeologists radar and photogrammetry specialists architects geologists historians computer programmers and others banded together to create a unique technology for exploring ...