Credit: Paleotechnic of Paris, France, CC-BY 4.0 The identified building process of the step pyramid: A hydraulic lift mechanism. Credit: Landreau et al., PLOS ONE.

A team of engineers suggests a new theory on how Egypt’s first pyramid was built — a water elevator used to float heavy stones through the middle of the structure.

Baines told Ars that he was “agnostic to skeptical” about the hydraulic lift hypothesis presented by Landreau et al., although he felt it was more solid than prior, shakier claims.

Ancient Egyptians May Have Used Hydraulic Lift to Build Pyramid Researchers propose that a system of water could have lifted heavy stones to the height necessary to construct the Step Pyramid.

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Waterpower may have given a big lift to builders of Egypt’s oldest known pyramid, the nearly 4,700-year-old Step Pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara. Ancient architects built a hydraulic system for ...

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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 ...

Because the pyramid sits near a long-gone branch of the Nile River, researchers hypothesize that the ancient Egyptians utilized the water source to build the 204-foot-tall (62 m) pyramid by ...

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A team of engineers suggests a new theory on how Egypt’s first pyramid was built — a water elevator used to float heavy stones through the middle of the structure.