Venture to the windswept sands of Saqqara, home to the Step Pyramid of Djoser, the world's first monumental stone structure ...

The ancient Egyptians took a number of measures to safeguard the pyramids. But did they ever resort to booby traps? The answer, Egyptologists told Live Science, is an emphatic no. "No, they didn't use ...

As the son of archaeologists, National Geographic Explorer David Stuart spent his childhood wandering ancient Maya ruins—and helped shape what we know about the civilization today.

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 ...

Explore Abu Rawash in Egypt, one of the most mysterious and least-known ancient pyramids on the Giza Plateau. Discover ...

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 ...

The Great Pyramid of Giza might get all the headlines, but it wasn't humanity’s first monumental effort. Long before pharaohs were stacking limestone in Egypt, people across the world were carving ...

Lucina Melesio explores how physicists are mapping the internal structures of ancient pyramids in Mexico and Central America using muons – potentially revealing hidden chambers that could finally lead ...

Hydraulic mechanics may have indeed been the driving force behind the construction of ancient Egyptian pyramids. In a preprint paper, scientists concluded that the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, ...