THE PYRAMID

The Pyramid located at Ellinikon, just a few kilometres from Nafplio is the most important and best preserved pyramid in Greece. The story surrounding the monument was that it was built as a common grave, for those soldiers who had fallen in the struggle for the throne of Argos back in the 14th Century B.C. The structure resembles a pyramid with the decorations of Argolic shields, showing the military connection. Another pyramid that the ancient traveller Pausanias saw on his journeys was at Kenchreai, another common grave dedicated to the Argives and Spartans who lost their lives at the Battle of Hysiai in 669 B.C. Unfortunately neither of these structures remain fully intact today to test how closely they resembled the pyramids of Egypt nor is there any proof that they even resembled an Egyptian pyramid at all.
With these two pyramid’s base stones remaining, it is possible to determine that Grecian pyramids existed, but were not used as the Egyptians used them.