Nearly 4,700 years ago, ancient Egyptian builders created something the world had never seen: a monumental stone pyramid ...

A general view shows the step pyramid of Djoser in Egypt's Saqqara necropolis, south of the capital Cairo, on March 5. Photo by Mohamed el-Shahed / AFP via Getty Images Some 4,700 years ago, a man ...

The honor of Egypt’s oldest necropolis belongs to Pharaoh Djoser, a ruler who ushered in the Old Kingdom’s Third Dynasty during the 27th century BCE. Constructed around 2,680 BCE in Saqqara, northwest ...

Pharaohs Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure built their massive tombs to last. For more than 4,000 years, the Pyramids of Giza ...

How the great pyramids of Egypt were built has long been a hotly debated open question, given the sheer size and weight of the limestone blocks used for the construction. Numerous speculative (and ...

Egypt’s pyramid tradition was already ancient by the time major pyramidal monuments were developing in Mesoamerica. The ...

A Millennium of Pyramids, and Then Silence For well over a thousand years, from the reign of King Djoser (2630–2611 BCE) up ...

The Pyramid of Djoser, the oldest of Egypt's iconic pyramids, may have been built with the help of a unique hydraulic lift system, according to researchers. A new study suggests that water may have ...

We all know what Egypt's pyramids look like on the outside, but what do they look like on the inside? Narrow passageways, spacious chambers and steep galleries make up the bulk of the interior layouts ...

It has long been a subject of debate - how exactly were Egypt's great pyramids built by the civilized world's first engineers? A popular theory suggests they used a system of ropes and sledges to haul ...

Though the Pyramid of Djoser has survived nearly 4,700 years of environmental wear, the 1992 Cairo earthquake nearly caused it to collapse inwards. (Charles J. Sharp/Wikipedia Commons) According to ...