The Great Pyramids of Egypt have been the source of fascination and mysticism for generations, with their daunting structures ...

CAIRO, April 18 (Xinhua) -- An Egyptian archaeological mission has discovered a tomb dating back more than 4,000 years at the Saqqara necropolis south of Cairo, the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities ...

For decades, Egypt has held the crown for the world’s oldest pyramids, with the iconic Djoser Step Pyramid—dating back to 2,630 BC—officially recognized by Guinness World Records. When people think of ...

Renowned archaeologist and former Minister of Antiquities Zahi Hawass noted that the mission discovered statues of King Djoser, along with his wife and ten daughters, according to a statement by the ...

Most striking is the famous Step Pyramid, built in the 27th century B.C. by Djoser, the Old Kingdom pharaoh who launched the tradition of constructing pyramids as monumental royal tombs.

Archaeologists excavating at Saqqara Necropolis found a 4,300-year-old tomb of a poorly known prince with a unique fake door, ...

However, the most famous are in Egypt, including the spectacular Pyramid of Gaza and the 'step pyramid' of Djoser. While Giza is the largest of Egypt's pyramids, Djoser is the oldest ...

Not just any pyramid, but what Osmanagich calls the Pyramid of the Moon, the world's largest—and oldest—step pyramid. Looming above the opposite side of town is the so-called Pyramid of the ...

Researchers in 2021 used ground penetrating radar to map out a dry moat structure surrounding the Step Pyramid in Saqqara, Egypt. In 2016, a team of Egyptian researchers used cosmic ray muon ...

But this doesn't look like a pyramid at all. If we use biomass, however, we get a regularly stepped pyramid because one tree has loads of biomass and it's a more useful visualisation because it ...