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 ...

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 hoisting ...

Venture to the windswept sands of Saqqara, home to the Step Pyramid of Djoser, the world's first monumental stone structure ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Pyramids of Giza, seen here with the Milky Way in the background, are not Egypt's oldest pyramids. Pyramids are iconic symbols ...

Map of the Saqqara plateau showing the water course from the Gisr el-Mudir dam to the water treatment facility near Djoser pyramid. The water is then transferred to the pyramid's network of pipes to ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. After years of restoration work, Egypt has ...

With a few notable exceptions, the last few days and weeks have brought plenty of news of closings and postponements. Thankfully, these uncertain times haven’t stopped the completion of an ambitious ...

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 ...

Egypt's so-called "Step Pyramid" was finally reopened to the public during an official ceremony in Egypt's Saqqara necropolis on March 5, 2020, following fourteen years of restoration work performed ...

The pyramid, which had been damaged by a 1992 earthquake and significant amounts of wind, was designed by the ancient Egyptian architect Imhotep more than 4,000 years ago. A general view shows the ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (CNN) — After years of restoration work, ...