It is thought to have been constructed around 4,700 years ago as a burial complex for Djoser, pharaoh of ancient Egypt's Third Dynasty. The pyramid is located in the Saqqara necropolis, which is ...

Miranda Krestovnikoff looks at what happens when the ancient Egyptians got their calculations wrong in building the pyramids in this KS2 History video.

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The image most people have of slaves being forced to build the pyramids against their will is incorrect, Redford says. "The concept of slavery is a very complicated problem in ancient Egypt," he ...

A groundbreaking study suggests the ancient Egyptians may have used hydraulic power before we could have imagined this skill. They did not utilize just ramps and manpower, to build the Step ...

Ancient hydraulic lift systems could have helped build the pyramids The Step Pyramid of Djoser may have been built using a hydraulic system, according to a new study Charles J. Sharp/ CC BY-SA 3.0 ...

If the pyramids helped to build ancient Egypt, they also preserved it. Giza allows us to explore a long-vanished world. "Many people think of the site as just a cemetery in the modern sense, but ...

There has been a lot of chatter in parts of the online world this week about the supposed discovery of a hidden complex of underground chambers beneath the Great Pyramids of Giza. People think it ...

The pyramids of Egypt have survived for 4,500 years, despite the more recent waves of tourists and camel-entrepreneurs encircling these magnificent feats of architecture. Now, for a brief three ...