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Nauplion. Amongst the new finds were foundations of rooms, ceramics of
Classical, Hellenistic, Roman and Protochristian periods, and Early Helladic II in the exterior foundations of Hellenikon above the bedrock. A comparative study of masonries was also made, 3) there is an astronomical orientation of the Long Entrance Corridor related to the rise of Orion’s belt occurring in c. 2400–2000 BC, 4) the dating of some parts of the overlying large megalithic blocks in the wall, with the novel thermoluminescence dating method of rock surfaces. Sampling was chosen for their firmness and lack of sun exposure of internal contact surfaces, by removing a few milligrams of powder from pieces in firm contact. Seven pieces gave an age range of c. 2500–2000 BC, while two ceramic sherds of non-diagnostic typology one from Hellenikon and one from Ligourio dated by TL and OSL gave concordant ages of 3000±250 BC and 660±200 BC respectively. This time frame would place construction of these structures at a time overlapping the construction of the pyramids in Egypt.
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precise, but that other structures mentioned in the research are not in fact pyramids, e.g. a tomb alleged to be the tomb of
Amphion and Zethus near Thebes, a structure at Stylidha (Thessaly) which is just a long wall, etc. She also notes the possibility that the stones that were dated might have been recycled from earlier constructions. She also notes that earlier research from the 1930s, confirmed in the 1980s by Fracchia, was ignored. She argues that they undertook their research using a novel, previously untested methodology in order to confirm a predetermined theory about the age of these structures.
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has criticised this research. She suggests that some of the research was done not to determine the reliability of the dating method, as was suggested, but to back up an assumption of age and to make certain points about pyramids and Greek civilization. She notes that not only are the results not very
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and his team argue for an early date through five sub-projects: 1) geophysical prospection inside and around the two pyramidals at
Hellenikon and Ligourio, were buried monuments when discovered, 2) the excavations were carried out by the archaeologist A.Sampson and The Archaeological Museum of
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afterwards, as neither could gain a decisive victory. The story is that they and their hosts were armed with shields, which were first used in this battle. For those that fell on either side was built here a common tomb, as they were fellow citizens and kinsmen.
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There is considerable controversy about the dates of these structures, with conflict between dating based on archeological excavations and dating through what was at the time the new technique of
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Sampson A. (1997) Geophysical prospection and archaeological test excavation and dating in two Hellenic pyramids. Surveys in Geophysics, 17, 593-618
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