Ancient architects might have designed a hydraulic system to hoist stone blocks, used to assemble the six-tiered, roughly 62-meter-tall pyramid of King Djoser. This proposal, detailed by ...

The researchers claim to have discovered eight vertical cylinder-shaped structures, referred to as shafts, extending ...

Pyramid tombs, once thought to be the final ... Saqqara necropolis south of Cairo to be the final resting place of King Djoser, founder of the Old Kingdom from the third dynasty.

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 ...

The dynasty’s second king, Khufu, ruled during a period ... Archaeological Museum, Bologna. The step pyramid stands over pharaoh Djoser’s funerary complex in Saqqara (right).

Map of the Saqqara plateau showing the water course from the Gisr el-Mudir dam to the water treatment facility near Djoser pyramid. The water is then transferred to the pyramid's network of pipes ...

The Djoser pyramid was built during the third dynasty ... in 1896 and shows the glorification of one of the poets to the King Merneptah, son of King Ramses II. Some argue that the word ...

Imhotep lived during the reign of King Djoser (2630-2611BC) and was the architect of the step pyramid at Saqquara, the first pyramid ever built in Egypt. Born a commoner, he quickly rose through the ...

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

King Khafre (2558-2532 BC) built this pyramid next to his ... Possibly Egypt’s strangest-looking pyramid, the Djoser Pyramid is located in Saqqara in the ancient capital of Memphis. Djoser (2650-2575 ...