It is thought to have been constructed around 4,700 years ago as a burial complex for Djoser ... The pyramid is located in ...

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 ...

both of which in olden days would have stood on the edge of the Nile. (A change in the river's course has left it farther east today.) Visitors take a ride below the Khafre Pyramid. You start ...

In her 1877 book, A Thousand Miles Up the Nile ... to HeavenThe step pyramid in Saqqara, south of Giza, was Egypt’s first. Built for the 3rd-dynasty pharaoh Djoser in 2650 B.C., the 204-foot ...

Latvian scientists archaeologists radar and photogrammetry specialists architects geologists historians computer programmers and others banded together to create a unique technology for exploring ...

The river was helpful for growing food in a hot place, as well as crops that made clothes and paper. It was located along the River Nile in north ... than the sword. The pyramids are giant tombs.