“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 ...

Archaeologists discovered a 2,200-year-old pyramid structure in the Judean Desert near the Dead Sea that featured stones ...

In the Judaean Desert near the Dead Sea, a mysterious pyramid structure and way station were uncovered. The excavation site […] ...

“We believe the building served to safeguard the road and may have been used by Ptolemaic officials to collect taxes from travelers.” The recent excavation is part of a larger multi-year ...

Archaeologists in the Judean Desert have unearthed a "mysterious pyramid-shaped structure" dating ... period – when the land of Israel was under Ptolemaic rule," said the release.

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 ...