Covering an area of around 4.3 by 0.9 miles, Saqqara is famous as an Egyptian village that contains ancient burial grounds of Egyptian royalty. Legendary chief architect Imhotep was responsible for ...

Builders of Egypt’s oldest known pyramid, the nearly 4,700-year-old Step Pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara, may have used waterpower to help construct this monumental structure.

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 ...

It comes just days after the Zahi Hawass Foundation for Antiquities and Heritage, a foundation established by Egyptian ...

And the facade of Menkaure’s high temple is aligned with ... The lowest stones in Egypt’s first ever pyramid—Djoser’s step pyramid in Saqqara, built the century before Khufu’s—are ...

The Saqqara archaeological site, one of Egypt’s most historically significant locations, continues to reveal remarkable secrets that provide valuable insights into the history of this iconic area.

Egyptian authorities unveiled the artefacts at an exhibition near the Saqqara necropolis on Saturday. Saqqara 'one of a kind' discovery revealed Egypt archaeologists find 20 ancient coffins ...

Journalists were allowed into the newly-discovered tomb, which experts have called "exceptionally well-preserved" Archaeologists in Egypt have ... found in the Saqqara pyramid complex near Cairo ...

The mission, lead by Hawass, uncovered burial wells with coffins and other major archaeological findings from the Modern Dynasty era. The Ministry of Antiquities announced a large archaeological ...

For years, Egyptologists have hotly debated how the massive pyramids of ancient Egypt were built more than ... built the Step Pyramid for Pharaoh Djoser in the 27th century BC, and it was the ...

Archaeologists discover 4,000-year-old tomb of ancient Egyptian royal physician Teti Neb Fu in Saqqara. (photo credit: Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.) A joint French-Swiss ...