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 ...

While Guinness World Records officially lists the Djoser Step pyramid in Egypt as the world’s oldest pyramid (around 2,630 BC), one paper published in October claimed a layer of the Gunung Padang ...

Only moving to wipe the moisture off my heated brow in the searing Egyptian sun, I gazed open-mouthed as I stood in front of ...

People are naturally curious - always pondering life’s great mysteries. Among those age-old questions, one that often comes up is: How were the Egyptian pyramids built? Some believe there’s more to ...

While the Egyptian pyramids are the most famous, they are not the only ones; in fact, one country has even more.

The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has revealed that a rare archaeological painting dating back to the Late Dynastic era has disappeared from the famous Khenti-Ka tomb in Saqqara, near ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. "Saqqâra (Ṣaqqārah) is a large ...

A rare limestone relief has vanished from a tomb in Egypt’s well-known Saqqara necropolis, the country’s antiquities authority has announced. The work disappeared from the tomb of Khentika, who was a ...

Egyptian antiquities officials on Sunday said a Pharaonic painting has disappeared from the famed Saqqara necropolis just outside of Cairo, becoming the latest artifact to disappear in a country known ...