Deep beneath the desert plateau of Saqqara, a row of colossal stone boxes has become a lightning rod for anyone convinced that ancient Egypt once wielded a level of technology we no longer understand.

Recent research has speculated that the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Egypt was built using water-powered engineering rather than using ramps, levers and human labour as experts have suggested before. The ...

This article is going to look at some of those early ideas and how they’ve grown into the technology examples we see all ...