2,200-year-old pyramid-shaped structure discovered in Judean Desert, along with papyrus documents, weapons, and fabrics.
A huge 2,200-year-old pyramidal structure with a way station beneath it – from the days of the Ptolemaic and Seleucid rulers— is now being unearthed in the Judean Desert, north of Nahal Zohar, by a joint Israel Antiquities Authority/Ministry of Heritage excavation, with volunteers from all over the country.
Among the findings uncovered thus far are papyrus documents written in Greek, bronze coins of the Ptolemies and of Antiochus IV, weapons, wooden tools and fabrics.
“What we have here is one of the richest and most intriguing archaeological excavations ever found in the Judean Desert,” said Matan Toledano, Dr. Eitan Klein and Amir Ganor, excavation directors on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority.