{"id":108534,"date":"2024-08-05T18:11:27","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T18:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/05\/was-egypts-first-pyramid-built-with-hydraulics-the-theory-may-hold-water\/"},"modified":"2024-08-05T18:11:27","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T18:11:27","slug":"was-egypts-first-pyramid-built-with-hydraulics-the-theory-may-hold-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/05\/was-egypts-first-pyramid-built-with-hydraulics-the-theory-may-hold-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Was Egypt\u2019s first pyramid built with hydraulics? The theory may hold water"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Waterpower may have given a big lift to builders of Egypt\u2019s oldest known pyramid, the nearly 4,700-year-old Step Pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ancient architects built a hydraulic system for hoisting stone blocks that were used to assemble King Djoser\u2019s six-tiered, roughly 62-meter-tall pyramid, scientists propose August 5 in PLOS ONE<\/em>. Controlled flows of water into and out of a large shaft inside the pyramid lifted and lowered a platform that carried loads of building stones to higher levels, say Xavier Landreau of the private Paris research institute Paleotechnic and colleagues.<\/p>\n\n\n