“We believe the building served to safeguard the road and may have been used by Ptolemaic officials to collect taxes from travelers.” The researchers think the pyramid was used between around ...

or even a tax collector’s fortress. The mystery surrounding the discovery of a 2,200-year-old pyramid in the Judean Desert near the Dead Sea comes with plenty of clues. Filled with Greek ...

Enigmatic 2,200-year-old ‘pyramid’ near Dead Sea ... suggesting it served as a post for tax collection and ... and may have been used by Ptolemaic officials to collect taxes from ...

Excavation of the mysterious pyramid-shaped structure in the Judean ... is shedding light on a site from the days of the Ptolemaic and Seleucid rulers. The Israel Antiquities Authority invites ...

Volunteers uncovered papyrus fragments covered in Greek writing while excavating a pyramid-shaped stone structure ... back 2,200 years to the time of the Ptolemaic dynasty and Seleucid Empire.

dating back to the Ptolemaic period, which ran for about 300 years before 30 B.C. It runs alongside Menkauhor's pyramid, leading from a mummification chamber toward the Saqqara Serapium ...

Further investigation hopes to parse out the site’s use, whether as a guard tower, a monument, or even a tax collector’s fortress. The mystery surrounding the discovery of a 2,200-year-old pyramid in ...