A new theory suggests the Step Pyramid of Djoser was constructed using ancient high-tech machinery instead of what experts ...

View of the ancient crypt inside the Great step pyramid of Djoser, Saqqara. Cairo. (photo credit: Melnikov Dmitriy. Via Shutterstock) Italian and Scottish researchers claim they found a major ...

including the Step Pyramid of Djoser, called "Egypt's first pyramid" by Live Science and built in the 27th century B.C., around a hundred years before the Pyramids of Giza. Best of all ...

Most striking is the famous Step Pyramid, built in the 27th century B.C. by Djoser, the Old Kingdom pharaoh ... There were even coffins buried in the base of the shaft itself, as if whoever ...

Tourist attraction in Egypt: Pyramids of Giza - Source: Getty The scientists allegedly found five identical structures at the base of the pyramid ... The most crucial step in Nirali’s reporting ...

New research conducted by Xavier Landreau from the CEA Paleotechnic Institute in Paris suggests that water power, not just brute force, may have help construct the iconic Step Pyramid of Djoser.

A pharaoh named Djoser ordered the construction of a "step pyramid" (a pyramid that looks like it has giant steps on its walls) around 4,600 years ago. The pharaoh Snefru ordered the construction ...

The bizarre, tiered structure is the work of the architect Imhotep, who ‘stacked’ the mastabas to create this step pyramid – 204 feet (62m) high and the first of its kind. Djoser’s sarcophagus was ...

According to Joann, for as early as circa 2650BC, Egypt’s earliest pyramid, the Step Pyramid of King Djoser at Sakkara, was not only home to the pharaoh’s burial chamber but also built over a vast ...