The 60-metre-high pyramid consists of six stacked steps over a burial shaft tomb which is 28 metres deep and seven metres wide.iStock Egypt on Thursday reopened Djoser's Step Pyramid, the first ...

A FASCINATING discovery has been made in Egypt: a step pyramid that's some 4600 years old, predating the Great Pyramid of Giza. The step pyramid, which once stood as high as 13 metres, is one of seven ...

A LOST city that’s 4300 years old. A massive stepped-pyramid. Human sacrifices. These are just some of the amazing new discoveries being unearthed in northern China. It’s a 4300-year-old walled ...

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

Egypt’s oldest pyramid was likely built with the help of an innovative hydraulic water elevator system, archaeologists claim in a new study which sheds more light on the ingenuity of ancient Egyptians ...

How the ancient Egyptian pyramids were constructed has been a subject of fascination for many of us - and now this mystery spanning 4,500 years may finally be solved. According to experts, it may be ...

UNESCO has asked Egypt for a detailed report on restoration work carried out at the Djoser pyramid following reports the more than 4,600-year-old monument had been damaged. Egyptian media reported ...

A study suggests the first of seven key pyramids in Egypt, the Step Pyramid of Djoser, was built using a hydraulic lift. Dated to about 4,500 years ago, this would move up the introduction of major ...