Researchers believe new archaeological discoveries in Egypt may help shed light on how the pyramids were built. The finds, by archaeologists working in an ancient quarry near the Great Pyramid of Giza ...

What began as an expedition to record the inscriptions of ancient Egyptian quarry workers produced a remarkable discovery about the Great Pyramid at Giza. My colleagues and I in the Anglo-French joint ...

Egyptologists have made a surprise discovery in an ancient quarry that suggests pyramid builders used a modified ramp to make hauling enormous rocks far easier. The Great Pyramid of Giza is one of the ...

Forget ramps—new evidence suggests Egypt’s oldest pyramid may have been powered by redirected floodwaters, turning desert wadis into ancient hydraulic engines. It’s engineering genius buried for 4,600 ...

"Landreau et al. estimate that Egyptian builders could have captured between 4 million and 54 cubic meters of water over the two or three decades it took to complete the Step Pyramid." "Landreau et al ...

How the great pyramids of Egypt were built has long been a hotly debated open question, given the sheer size and weight of the limestone blocks used for the construction. Numerous speculative (and ...

EGYPT'S mysterious pyramids have always baffled scientists – but an ancient construction hack may reveal how they were built. Egyptologists have made a surprise discovery in an ancient quarry that ...

A clever construction technique designed more than four millennia ago has been unearthed EGYPT’S mysterious pyramids have always baffled scientists – but an ancient construction hack may reveal how ...