Greece’s civilisation ministry building said Tuesday that archaeologists convey located the root tangible remains of a lost metropolis that the ancient Greeks believed was root settled past times Trojan captives of nation of war after the flame of Troy.
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| The ministry building said archaeologists convey located the root tangible remains of the metropolis that, according to tradition, was root settled past times Trojan nation of war captives after the Greek flame of Troy [Credit: Greek Culture Ministry] |
Finds included walls as well as clay, marble or rock floors of buildings, every bit good every bit identify pottery, a os gaming cash inward one's chips as well as to a greater extent than than 200 coins dating from the fourth century B.C. to belatedly Roman times.
H5N1 pottery jounce containing the remains of 2 human fetuses was likewise flora amid the foundations of i building. That was unusual, every bit the ancient Greeks typically buried their dead inward organized cemeteries exterior the metropolis walls.
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| Remains of walls as well as floors, belike from houses, from the lost ancient metropolis of Tenea [Credit: Greek Culture Ministry] |
“This twelvemonth nosotros excavated business office of the metropolis itself,” Korka said.
Excavation function continues on the cemeteries, located close the modern hamlet of Hiliomodi nearly 100 kilometers (60 miles) southwest of Athens.
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| A band bearing a sealing rock with a depiction of Sarapis sitting on a throne ais alongside the finds[Credit: Greek Culture Ministry] |
“The citizens seem to convey been remarkably affluent,” Korka said, adding that the metropolis belike did good out of trade, standing on a cardinal road betwixt the major cities of Corinth as well as Argos inward the northeastern Peloponnese.
So far, non much was known nearly Tenea, apart from ancient references to the reputed link with Troy as well as to its citizens having formed the mass of the Greek colonists who founded the metropolis of Syracuse inward Sicily.
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| Finds included walls as well as clay, marble or rock floors of buildings, every bit good every bit identify pottery, a os gaming die as well as to a greater extent than than 200 coins dating from the fourth century B.C. to belatedly Roman times [Credit: Greek Culture Ministry] |
″(The city) had distinctive pottery shapes with eastern influences, maintained contacts with both due east as well as due west ... as well as had its ain means of thinking, which, to the extent that it could, shaped its ain policies,” she said.
Tenea survived the Roman devastation of neighboring Corinth inward 146 B.C., as well as flourished nether Roman rule. It appears to convey suffered impairment during a Gothic invasion inward the belatedly fourth century A.D. as well as may convey been abandoned unopen to the fourth dimension of Slavic incursions 2 centuries later.
Author: Nicholas Paphitis | Source: The Associated Press [November 13, 2018]
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