Greek Authorities Say Lost Ancient City of Tenea Located

VOA.com ^ | November 13, 2018

[rdl6989]

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 dating from the 4th century B.C. to late Roman times.

[rdl6989]

Lost city Ping.

[Psalm 73]

Paging sunkenciv....

[yarddog]

If this is the one close to Corinth, it has been known about for a long time, just no one bothered to excavate.

[blueunicorn6]

It was just sitting there between Ninea and Elevenea.

[rdl6989]

Interesting, under our noses the whole time.

[rdl6989]

Lol

[rfp1234]

It was ruled by a transvestite named Madea.

[ridesthemiles]

I saw what you did there.....

If I were to know then what I know now, I might have gotten more interested in archeology. Fascinating stuff.

[rfp1234]

the sack of Troy

[trisham]

Interesting. Thank you!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks for the topic and pings. I think blueunicorn6 is onto something -- the city probably got lost in Roman times when the stupid mileposts had IX, X, and XI on the same rock.

[SunkenCiv]

The other sack of Troy was filled with Halloween candy, but the Greeks refused to go away.

[SunkenCiv]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenea

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenedos

[blueunicorn6]

Thank you.

I’ve always wanted to be an arkee.....arqueol......guy who looks at old stuff.

[blueunicorn6]

I now feel that it is my duty to say something profound about this.

QUIT LEANING ON THOSE SHOVELS AND GET BACK TO DIGGING!

Do you think this old stuff is going to find itself!

That is all.

[rdl6989]

I learn something every day on FR

[yarddog]

I was surprised they let Trojan prisoners of war found their own town in Greece. Not as brutal as I would have imagined.

[SunkenCiv]

Part of the booty (so to speak) of sacking a city or raiding any other settled area were the captives, who were basically enslaved. The Linear B inscriptions of Mycenaean Greece appear to have been mostly used for bookkeeping and keeping track of taxes and whatnot. The Trojan Women of the ancient play title were referred to "women of Asia", and wound up working their fingers off making flax (and doing other hard work) for whatever remained of their lives.

In search of the Trojan war - The Women of Troy (4/6)

[SunkenCiv]

Whoops! S/B...

were referred to as"women of Asia"