For centuries, the enormous gabled chevron blocks above the entrance to the Great Pyramid have baffled explorers and ...

The Bent Pyramid of Dahshur remains one of the most enigmatic monuments from ancient Egypt. For over fifty years, it was entirely off-limits to researchers and explorers, but now we finally have the ...

French researchers have uncovered secrets of Egypt’s pyramid construction, pointing to the use of hydraulic techniques.

Egyptians may no longer be able to claim that they were the original builders of the Great Pyramid as new evidence has ...

Put another way, the ancient Egyptian pyramids were built between about roughly 2700 B.C. and 1500 B.C. This makes the earliest pyramids about the same age as Stonehenge, which was initially built ...

As one of the most famous Ancient Egyptian pyramids, the Pyramid of Khafre on the plateau of Giza has been a true wonder of the Ancient World ever since its construction around 2570 BCE. Today, wel… ...

Ancient Egyptians built the Step Pyramid for Pharaoh Djoser in the 27th century BC, and it was the tallest structure at the time, coming in at about 62 meters (204 feet) tall.

A diagram illustrating how a hydraulic system may have aided ancient Egyptians in building the step Pyramid of Djoser Landreau et al., 2024, PLOS ONE/ CC-BY 4.0 ...

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.

The construction of ancient Egypt’s oldest known pyramid may have benefited from a water elevator capable of lifting 50 to 100 tonnes of stones at a time. The suggestion draws upon the fact that ...