The ingenuity of ancient Egyptian engineers may have been even more ahead of their time than we thought. A new study suggests a currently unexplained ancient structure may have been part of a water ...

I'm thinking because making the entire pyramid a gradually ascending spiral (rather than, say, simply stepped) gives you the most gradual slope of any simple ramp configuration. You can go around all ...

CAIRO, Egypt (CNN/CNN Newsource/WKRC) - Egyptians used a hydraulic lift to build the oldest pyramid. Scientists are floating a new idea on how Egypt's oldest pyramid was built more than 4,000 years ...

The discovery of a 3,400-year-old step pyramid in the heart of Central Asia is forcing me to rethink what I thought I knew about the ancient world. Far from the deserts of Egypt or the jungles of ...

"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 ...