While experts conventionally date the Hellinikon buildings to the 4th century BC based on style, thermoluminescence tests yielded dates around 2000-2500 BC. Excavations beneath the pyramid also revealed Early Helladic pottery from roughly 2500-2800 BC—evidence researchers argue points to a far older origin. 🏺📊
Dating evidence suggests Hellinikon building dates to 2000-2800 BC
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- The small cyclopean buildings are conventionally dated by experts to the 4th century BC
- Pausanias' written account references these structures in connection with the early Mycenaean era
- Thermoluminescence dating yielded results of approximately 2000-2500 BC
- Excavations beneath the Pyramid of Hellenikon yielded Early Helladic pottery dated to approximately 2500-2800 BC
- Mycenaean culture is recognized to have begun around the 15th century BC (1500 BC)
- Combined written, pottery, and thermoluminescence evidence places the buildings at the transition between the 3rd and 2nd millennia BC
- Academic experts are criticized for dismissing the multi-source dating evidence in favor of stylistic similarity arguments with other dated sites
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Ancient Pyramid of Greece Sparks Controversygreekreporter.com
The trouble with the story of the Hellinikon pyramid is that scholars of Greek antiquity have disputed its period and purpose.
Greek pyramidsen.wikipedia.org
There is considerable controversy about the dates of these structures, with conflict between dating based on archeological excavations and dating through ...
The Greek Pyramids of Argolis: Mystery, Dating ...greekcitytimes.com
The Hellenikon pyramid is the most studied and intact, featuring a long entrance corridor, internal rooms, cisterns for water supply, small ...
The Hellinikon: were the Greeks building Pyramids before ...historicmysteries.com
It is important as well to note that the early dating of the pyramid is controversial, and other suggestions have been put forward which would ...
What Culture built the Greek "Pyramid" of Hellinikon?historum.com
I understand that some ceramics dating has dated it to the proto-heladic, whiles other maintain that they are Classical era structures.
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