“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 ...

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.

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 ...

Now, they have discovered a "mysterious pyramid-shaped structure" built with ... Hellenistic period - when the land of Israel was under Ptolemaic rule." The excavation site, just north of the ...

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 ...