Qualla: Pyramid of Hellinikon https://qualla.com/greek-pyramids en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:07 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Pyramid of Hellinikon https://qualla.com/greek-pyramids Pyramid of Hellinikon: Introduction https://qualla.com/greek-pyramids/ The ancient geographer Pausanias passed by it in the 2nd century AD and recorded that it looked like a pyramid — and that people told him it was a tomb for soldiers who had died fighting over the throne of Argos. He wrote it down and moved on, apparently unbothered by the fact that no one could tell him much more than that. Seventeen centuries later, archaeologists, thermoluminescence specialists, and classicists are still arguing about what the Pyramid of Hellinikon actually is, when it was built, and why anyone built it here in the first place. The structure is small enough to walk around in a minute, built of grey limestone blocks, standing at the southeastern edge of the Argive plain. Its modesty is part of what makes it strange.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/8/j/greek-pyramids-wp/sw8j-pyramid-of-hellinikon-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Pyramid of Hellinikon: What Pausanias Saw https://qualla.com/greek-pyramids/ In his Description of Greece, Pausanias described the structure he passed on the road from Argos toward Epidauros: a building 'made very like a pyramid,' its exterior carved with shields in the Argive style. He was told that two mythical brothers, Proetus and Acrisius, had fought...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/8/j/greek-pyramids-wp/sw8j-pyramid-of-hellinikon-what-pausanias-saw.mp3 0:06 2 full Pyramid of Hellinikon: A Guardhouse, Perhaps, or Something Older https://qualla.com/greek-pyramids/ When the German archaeologist Theodor Wiegand excavated the Hellinikon pyramid around 1900, he removed most of the fill from the floor. In 1937, L. Lord of the American School of Archaeology at Athens examined both the Hellinikon structure and a similar one near Lygourio, close t...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/8/j/greek-pyramids-wp/sw8j-pyramid-of-hellinikon-a-guardhouse-perhaps-or-something-older.mp3 0:06 3 full Pyramid of Hellinikon: The Dating Controversy https://qualla.com/greek-pyramids/ A more dramatic claim emerged in the late 20th century when Ioannis Liritzis and his team applied thermoluminescence dating to the limestone blocks at Hellinikon. Their results suggested an age range of approximately 2,500 to 2,000 BC — which would place construction in the Early...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/8/j/greek-pyramids-wp/sw8j-pyramid-of-hellinikon-the-dating-controversy.mp3 0:06 4 full Pyramid of Hellinikon: A Small Mystery at the Edge of a Plain https://qualla.com/greek-pyramids/ The Pyramid of Hellinikon sits on the ancient road that once connected Argos to Tegea, and through Tegea to the wider world of Arcadia and beyond. It was a road that saw armies, merchants, pilgrims, and travellers for centuries. Pausanias walked it. The people who built Mycenae a...

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