Tenea was an ancient Greek city plant , so the story conk , by Trojan War survivors in the 12th or thirteenth century BCE . Until now , its location ( and very existence ) was entirely reliant on the words of diachronic text . This week , however , the country’sMinistry of Cultureannounced that a squad of archaeologists has discovered jewellery , pottery , and even infrastructure , seemingly confirming its whereabouts at a site penny-pinching to the village of Chiliomodi in southerly Greece .
Little is sleep together about Tenea itself other than it was base by the Trojans , who had been taken prisoners by King Agamemnon of Mycenae in the Trojan War . Legend has it , the urban center thrived in the centuries that succeeded and until the end of the Roman Empire around the turn of the fourth C CE , at which percentage point it seems to have endured some damage from a mediaeval encroachment . agree to the Ministry , the metropolis may have been left desert in the sixth century CE during the Avar and Slavic foray .
Fast forward to the 21st century and archeologist have spent more than five long time excavating the sphere around Chiliomodi , a village in the Peloponnese , Greece . According to theAssociated Press , the squad primarily focused on a smattering of graveyard border Tenea but found the corpse of a settlement during their most late excavation , which they believe to be the lose urban center itself .
" It is substantial that the remnants of the city , the paved roads , the architectural structure , came to Inner Light , " wind archeologist Eleni Korka toldReuters .
So far , the team has discovered Lucius Clay , stone , and marble floors and paries – the substructure of the city . They have also find vases , jewelry ( made from gold , bronze , and bone ) , and some 200 rarefied coins from the Hellenistical and recent papistic catamenia , at least one of which was intended to pay for the journey to the afterlife . Some of the more strange finds included a bone gaming die , an iron ring with a picture of the Egyptian god Serapis and the three - channelise heel Cerberus on it , and a pottery jar storing the remains of two human fetuses . These aim , the archaeologist say , date from the quaternary century BCE and even to begin with .
According to Korka , the objects show the citizens of this ancient city were " remarkably affluent . " The localisation of Tenea – on an important itinerary between two major cities , Corinth to the north and Argos to the south – suggest its resident may have benefited from trade .
" [ The city ] had classifiable clayware shapes with easterly influences , maintained contacts with both east and west … and had its own path of thinking , which , to the extent that it could , shaped its own policy , " Korka told theAssociated Press .
Despite these new discoveries , the city ( and its residents ) remain a bit of a enigma . Hopefully , future excavations will add more information to light .
