It’s not known how high the partially excavated north shaft extended, limiting the ability to model a possible hydraulic lift system, he says. But he predicts that stonework on the shaft sides ...

Now, a team of engineers and geologists brings a new theory to the table — a hydraulic lift device that would have floated the heavy stones up through the middle of Egypt’s oldest pyramid ...

They suspect a hydraulic system may have helped lift stones from the center of the ... But “no generally accepted wholistic model for pyramid construction exists yet,” the study authors ...

A study suggests that the first of seven key pyramids in Egypt, the Step Pyramid of Djoser, was built using a hydraulic lift. Dated to about 4,500 years ago, this would move up the introduction of ...

And while ancient Egyptians relied on a number of tools to help build the roughly 205-foot-tall structure, a new study indicates at least one previously unknown aid—a hydraulic lift system ...

The Pyramid of Djoser, the oldest of Egypt's iconic pyramids, may have been built with the help of a unique hydraulic lift system, according to a study published August 5, 2024, in the open-access ...