roughly 62-meter-tall pyramid of King Djoser. This proposal, detailed by scientists in PLOS ONE, suggests that controlled water flows in and out of a large shaft inside the pyramid lifted and ...

He contends that designers of Djoser’s pyramid deftly engineered ... including a north shaft situated inside the pyramid. Granite chambers near the bottom of both shafts contained stone plugs ...

A group of researchers believe they may have solved the mystery of a structure near the Pyramid of Djoser. It may have been part of a hydraulic lift system.

Djoser's pyramid would have been erected ... a crane on our modern building sites," Landreau said. "Its position inside the pyramid also offers logistical advantages, as the blocks arrive at ...

In the Old Kingdom, in the third millennium B.C.—Djoser’s time—the elites ... But Egyptian texts covering the walls inside the Saqqara pyramids describe the king’s soul rising up after ...

The first pyramid, the Step Pyramid of the Third ... but others are dummy buildings finished on the outside, but solid on the inside. In Djoser’s monument at Saqqara, there are columns thought ...

General view of the Step Pyramid of Djoser at Saqqâra on February 9 ... which in turn could have powered the lifting mechanism inside the pyramid. However, this setup implies a level of hydraulic ...

The Step Pyramid of Djoser, erected some 4,500 years ago ... trench that brought water below the ground and up into the shaft inside the pyramid. “We have uncovered a possible explanation ...

There is topographical evidence of a possible lake just west of the Djoser complex and evidence ... existence of a floating wooden elevator inside the pyramid as it was being constructed, relying ...

The Pyramid of Djoser, the oldest of Egypt's iconic pyramids ... that water may have been able to flow into two shafts located inside the pyramid itself, where that water could have been used ...

A study suggests that 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 ...