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 ...
GEM is being hailed as the world's largest museum dedicated to a single civilisation, with over 50,000 artefacts chronicling ...
We all know what Egypt’s pyramids look like on the outside, but what do they look like on the inside? Narrow passageways, spacious chambers and steep galleries make up the bulk of the interior layouts ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Evidence is now stronger than ever that the mysterious population collapse of Rapa Nui never actually happened. Recent ...
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 ...