The Greek Pyramids - Robert Temple

An exciting new perspective on the origins of Greek civilisation. The pyramids of Greece pose one of the greatest mysteries of Greek archaeology. The region of the Peloponnese which once constituted the prehistoric Kingdom of Argos, nearly a thousand years before the Trojan War, contained several modest-sized limestone pyramids. The earliest surviving mention of one of these is in an ancient text by Pausanius in the 2nd century AD. In the 19th century five were standing. Today the ruins of two... Zobrazit více