The honor of Egypt’s oldest necropolis belongs to Pharaoh Djoser, a ruler who ushered in the Old Kingdom’s Third Dynasty during the 27th century BCE. Constructed around 2,680 BCE in Saqqara, northwest ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (CNN) — After years of restoration work, ...

Egypt's so-called "Step Pyramid" was finally reopened to the public during an official ceremony in Egypt's Saqqara necropolis on March 5, 2020, following fourteen years of restoration work performed ...

Learn more about the Pyramids of Giza, who they were built for, and the possible methods used to complete them.

The Pyramids of Giza, seen here with the Milky Way in the background, are not Egypt's oldest pyramids. Pyramids are iconic symbols of the ancient pharaohs' power and technological prowess that still ...

Engineers might have cracked the code for how the ancient Egyptians built their first pyramids. A new study suggests that water power, not just brute force, helped construct the iconic Step Pyramid of ...

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 ...

Though the Pyramid of Djoser has survived nearly 4,700 years of environmental wear, the 1992 Cairo earthquake nearly caused it to collapse inwards. (Charles J. Sharp/Wikipedia Commons) According to ...

A huge trench around ancient Egypt's oldest step pyramid may have served as a 3D model of the pharaoh's way to the afterlife, an expert has claimed. Kamil O. Kuraszkiewicz, an Egyptologist from the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. After years of restoration work, Egypt has ...

After years of restoration work, Egypt has reopened its oldest pyramid to the public. The Djoser pyramid – which is around 4,700 years old, made solely of stone and built of six stacked terraces – was ...