See how Egyptian engineers might have used water to shape history’s greatest monuments.

A peer-reviewed study has proposed that ancient Egyptians may have used a water-powered lifting system to build the Step ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. "The dominant appearance of the Step ...

There are more than 100 pyramids in Egypt, but this was the first, built during the reign of Pharoah Djoser (2630 B.C. to 2611 B.C) as a grand mausoleum for himself. Previous pharaohs’ tombs were flat ...

Egypt had always lived in my mind as a faraway place with monuments that I’d only briefly seen on travel channels as a kid, full of ancient history that seemed more legendary than concrete. When I had ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A study suggests that the first of seven key pyramids in Egypt, the Step Pyramid of Djoser, was built using a hydraulic lift.