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  • Greek Authorities Say Lost Ancient City of Tenea Located

    11/13/2018 11:12:41 AM PST · by rdl6989 · 19 replies
    VOA.com ^ | November 13, 2018
    ATHENS, GREECE — Greece's culture ministry said Tuesday that archaeologists have located the first tangible remains of a lost city that the ancient Greeks believed was first settled by Trojan captives of war after the sack of Troy. A ministry statement said excavations from September to early October in the southern Greek region of the Peleponnese turned up "proof of the existence of the ancient city" of Tenea, until now known mostly from ancient texts. Finds included walls and clay, marble or stone floors of buildings, as well as household pottery, a bone gaming die and more than 200 coins...