Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Step Pyramid with a blue sky in the background. Saqqara has been used for thousands of years and "the reasons for being buried ...

An artwork depicting the seasons of the ancient Egyptian calendar has gone missing from the famed Egyptian necropolis of Saqqara. A British mission working in the tomb discovered that the piece had ...

Researchers have uncovered a potential explanation for how the iconic Pyramid of Djoser, believed to be the oldest in ancient Egypt, was built. The step pyramid, located in the Saqqara necropolis, ...

SAQQARA, Egypt -- Archaeologists have discovered a previously unknown pyramid under the sands of Saqqara, an ancient burial site that has yielded a string of pyramids in recent years but remains ...

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 to ...