Gooday, I'm Gary Stevens.

Welcome to the afterlife of the History in the Bible podcast.

Afterlife Detour Episode 3, Ancient Egyptian Hydraulics.

Hello, guys.

Another detour episode.

In this episode, Bernie Mayapolski of the Fan of History podcast invited me onto

his show to discuss new research into the Step Pyramid of Pharaoh Josah.

The first choice you hear is Bernie. I'm here with one of my favorite people, Gary Stevens from

the History in the Bible podcast. Hello Gary. Hello,ino. How are you doing? I'm doing very well.

So today, I just did an episode on ancient Egypt, so we're going to, I'm, this is what's new in

history is in the same vein. And then title of the article is, archaeologists uncover evidence

of high-tech machines used by ancient Egyptians to build

the pyramids thousands of years ahead of their time. That sounds clickbaity almost, doesn't it?

It does. Now, that's the popular article. It's based on an academic paper, which has the title on the possible use of hydraulic

force to assist with building the step pyramid of Sakara, Sakara.

Yeah, I think Sakara, this Dozier's period, Jojors, D-J-O-S-E-R pyramid of.

Joseph.

It's the step pyramid, not the grand pyramid, not the great pyramid of Giza.

No.

The step pyramid was quite significant in that it's the first big structure which we would

think of as a pyramid.

Right.

...