Inside, Youssef and his colleagues found signs ... Buildings such as the Step Pyramid were already thousands of years old at this time, and people believed their creators, such as Djoser and ...

Builders of Egypt’s oldest known pyramid, the nearly 4,700-year-old Step Pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara ... water flows in and out of a large shaft inside the pyramid lifted and lowered a platform ...

The researchers claim to have discovered eight vertical cylinder-shaped structures, referred to as shafts, extending approximately 2,100 feet deep beneath the pyramids.

Preliminary research suggests the statues may have originally been inside the Step Pyramid complex before being moved to the newly found tomb, according to Zahi Hawass, an Egyptologist and former ...

CAIRO -- Egypt’s antiquities authorities on Thursday unveiled a newly discovered, sealed-off chamber inside one of the Great Pyramids at Giza, just outside of Cairo, that dates back some 4,500 ...

A study suggests that the first of seven key pyramids in Egypt, the Step Pyramid of Djoser, was built using a hydraulic lift. Dated to about 4,500 years ago, this would move up the introduction of ...

Only certain stones are affected, suggesting part of the pyramid was submerged in ancient times," Mei said. He also noted that thick salt encrusting had been found inside the Great Pyramid ...

Although many theories exist, including ramps that envelop the entire pyramid, to intricate construction methods from the inside out, the only evidence we have left are these pyramids themselves.