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 ...
At a windswept plateau in Saqqara, a short drive southwest of modern-day Cairo, an ambitious new theory is upending traditional ideas about how Egypt’s first pyramid was built. The Step Pyramid of ...