roughly 62-meter-tall pyramid of King Djoser. This proposal, detailed by scientists in PLOS ONE, suggests that controlled water flows in and out of a large shaft inside the pyramid lifted and ...

The Pyramids ... located inside the pyramid itself, where that water could have been used to help raise and lower a float used to carry the building stones. The Pyramid of Djoser, also known ...

Map of the Saqqara plateau showing the water course from the Gisr el-Mudir dam to the water treatment facility near Djoser pyramid. The water is then transferred to the pyramid's network of pipes ...

Little is known about Djoser, but the fact that he was able to build such a massive and innovative structure as the Step Pyramid suggests that during his reign Egypt was politically stable ...