“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 […] ...

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 ...

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 ...