For years, Egyptologists have hotly debated how the massive pyramids of ancient Egypt were built more than 4,000 years ago. Now, a team of engineers and geologists brings a new theory to the table — a ...

Beneath Egypt’s Step Pyramid is a vast maze of tunnels, shafts, and chambers carved deep into the bedrock. In the lowest levels, rare access reveals precision stone artifacts, alabaster boxes, and ...

Beneath Egypt’s Step Pyramid is a vast underground maze of shafts, galleries, and chambers carved deep into the bedrock. In rare walkthrough footage, piles of stone vessel fragments reveal two very ...

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 ...

The ingenuity of ancient Egyptian engineers may have been even more ahead of their time than we thought. A new study suggests a currently unexplained ancient structure may have been part of a water ...

A groundbreaking study suggests the ancient Egyptians may have used hydraulic power before we could have imagined this skill. They did not utilize just ramps and manpower, to build the Step Pyramid of ...

Ancient Egypt. Pyramids. A video for KS2 pupils exploring pyramids in Ancient Egypt - their construction, purpose and the ways they evolved. BBC Teach.