Pyramid of Kambia

37.5910°N, 23.0742°E.

The Pyramid of Kambia in the Argolid region of the Peloponnese, southern Greece — a small dressed-stone structure forming part of the cluster of Argolid pyramids that includes Hellinikon, Ligourio, and Dalamanara, conventionally dated by mainstream Greek archaeology to the Classical period (approximately fifth to fourth century BCE). Original base approximately 12 metres per side; original height around 8 metres in a sloping square structure built of polygonal limestone blocks. Excavated in part by Greek archaeological missions in the early twentieth century. The Kambia structure is one of approximately six confirmed Argolid pyramids documented in the modern archaeological literature; their concentration in this single small region of the Peloponnese is unique in the Greek world, with no comparable cluster anywhere else in the Mediterranean. The interpretation as a watchtower network commanding the sightlines between Argos and Tegea is the most-cited mainstream reading.

One of six small Argolid pyramids in a single region whose collective function appears to have been a coordinated military or administrative network on the road system between two of the major cities of the Classical Peloponnese.