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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Now we can add the possible use of a hydraulic lift to those speculative scenarios ... French architect Jean-Pierre Houdin constructed an archetypal model of the Great Pyramid of Giza to ...

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 ...

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 ...