By May, if the Alvarez technique checks out, they will move the spark chamber to the nearby Second Pyramid or Pyramid of Chephren. Though the Second Pyramid was built by Cheops’ son, ...

The Step Pyramid of Djoser, erected some 4,500 years ago, may have been built through the use of a unified water-powered hydraulic lift system, the study authors found. 3.

The Great Pyramid of Giza is the last remaining Wonder of the Ancient World and mystery still surrounds it to this day. The ...

Newly found rooms in Sahura’s Pyramid challenge what we know of such structures Cheap construction reduced the monument at Abusir in Egypt to rubble over millennia.

FADEL: So this pyramid would have been like a volcano, but with building materials floating up the center. INSKEEP: Yeah, the water did the work. Landreau and his team had originally set out to ...

Constructed around 2,680 BCE in Saqqara, northwest of the ruins of Memphis, the six-tier, four-sided Step Pyramid of Djoser stood amid a large courtyard filled with decorative ceremonial structures.

The “Time Pyramid” is being assembled slowly by the residents of a German town, who can scarcely imagine the world in which the artwork will be completed. By Richard Fisher Richard Fisher, who ...

Unknown: The Lost Pyramid is the first in a series of four feature-length documentaries under the Unknown name. The films follow scientists as they make discoveries in unexplored, or at the very ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a 2,500-year-old hidden tomb under the shadow of one of Giza’s three giant pyramids, and more treasures may lie deeper underground.