And while ancient Egyptians relied on a number of tools to help build the roughly 205-foot-tall structure, a new study indicates at least one previously unknown aid—a hydraulic lift system ...

Now we can add the possible use of a hydraulic lift to those speculative scenarios. According to a new paper published in the journal PLoS ONE, ancient Egyptians during the Third Dynasty may have ...

They suspect a hydraulic system may have helped lift stones from the center of the pyramid. “This is a watershed discovery,” Xavier Landreau, first author of the new study and CEO of the ...

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 ...

Columbus firefighters had to help rescue a tree trimmer, after a hydraulic lift broke down, leaving him stuck about 30 feet ...