It is thought to have been constructed around 4,700 years ago as a burial complex for Djoser ... The pyramid is located in ...

Continue to the impressive Step Pyramid of King Djoser, the oldest pyramid in Egypt ... Return to Sanctuary Nile Adventurer for lunch with Nile River views. Later, learn how to bake Egyptian-style ...

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 ...

Little is known about Djoser, but the fact that he was able to build such a massive and innovative structure as the Step Pyramid suggests that during his reign Egypt was politically stable ...

both of which in olden days would have stood on the edge of the Nile. (A change in the river's course has left it farther east today.) Visitors take a ride below the Khafre Pyramid. You start ...

And even sometimes speculation that it wasn’t humans at all. The title for the oldest pyramid is shared between the Djoser Step Pyramid of Saqqara, Egypt and the Caral Pyramids of Peru ...

In her 1877 book, A Thousand Miles Up the Nile ... to HeavenThe step pyramid in Saqqara, south of Giza, was Egypt’s first. Built for the 3rd-dynasty pharaoh Djoser in 2650 B.C., the 204-foot ...

Out in the desert dunes of Giza stands a new pyramid, made out of one million plastic bottles - all of which were fished out of the Nile river. Australian environmental activist and entrepreneur Mike ...

Our Nile cruise explores the mighty monuments ... We’ll also visit the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, just south of Cairo and built over 4,600 years ago, this is Egypt’s first proper pyramid, and ...

Our Nile cruise explores the mighty monuments ... We’ll also visit the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, just south of Cairo and built over 4,600 years ago, this is Egypt’s first proper pyramid, and ...