[SunkenCiv]

full title: "Bulgaria's Largest Thracian Mound Proves to Be Tower Tomb Like in Petra, Palmyra, Likely of Roman Emperor Philip I the Arab".

Hidden underneath what was supposedly the largest Ancient Thracian burial mound in Bulgaria has turned out to be a pyramid-shaped Roman Era Middle Eastern tower tombs like the ones in Petra and Palmyra. The photo shows only the top of the 3rd century AD b

[jimtorr]

Building in photo doesn’t look like a pyramid to me.

[higgmeister]

Very impressive! I’ll study it more later.

[lefty-lie-spy]

Excavating from the bottom up wasn’t an option?

[Jewbacca]

Watch out for the barrow weights(sp?)

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Always amazed people feel compelled to dig up burial grounds.

[Red Badger]

...where, unfortunately, dozens of such ancient tower tombs were blown up by the Islamic State (ISIS).

"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past." .........George Orwell, 1984.................

[BenLurkin]

Interesting!