The ingenuity of ancient Egyptian engineers may have been even more ahead of their time than we thought. A new study suggests a currently unexplained ancient structure may have been part of a water ...

A peer-reviewed study has proposed that ancient Egyptians may have used a water-powered lifting system to build the Step Pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara, the oldest of Egypt’s seven monumental pyramids.

"Landreau et al. estimate that Egyptian builders could have captured between 4 million and 54 cubic meters of water over the two or three decades it took to complete the Step Pyramid." "Landreau et al ...