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Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Lost city of Tenea, reputed home of Trojan war captives, is discovered in 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...


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