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Greece’s Lost City of Tenea Gives Up More Secrets

2019-10-23 by Phil Butler

Tenea Baths

The Greek Culture Ministry announced this week new discoveries from excavations at the ancient city of Tenea in the Peloponnese. Archaeologists led by Eleni Korka, have uncovered a complex of bathing facilities, of roughly 600 square meters, dating from between the end of the third century BC to the mid-1st century BC. The lost city […]

Tags: ancient city, archaeological discovery, archaeology, Eleni Korka, Greece archaeology, Greece ruins, Lost City of Tenea, Tenea, Trojan City, Trojan War, Trojans

Archaeologists Discoveries on Daskalio Islet May Redefine Ancient History

2019-07-18 by Phil Butler

Archaeologists have discovered ruins that date to 4,600 years ago on Dhaskalio Islet, an uninhabited islet off the holiday island of Naxos.

Tags: Ano Koufonisi, archaeological discovery, archaeology, architectural buildings, British School at Athens, Cambridge, Dr. Michael Boyd, Greece, Greece archaeology, Greece history, Michael Boyd, Naxos

Archaeologists Make Stunning New Discoveries on Kythnos

2018-09-04 by Phil Butler

Ancient Kythnos

Archaeologists of the University of Thessaly announced recently, the findings of the excavation of two stunning Classical-Hellenistic buildings at the ancient city of Kythnos (Vryokastro).

Tags: adyton, archaeological discovery, archaeology, Greece excavations, Greek antiquity, Vryokastro

Odysseus’ Palace Archaeological Dig on Ithaca to Continue

2018-08-29 by Phil Butler

Ithaki

A visit to from Prime Minister of Greece, Alexis Tsipras is cause for renewed enthusiasm over continued excavations at the Palace of Odysseus on the island of Ithaca (Ithaki).

Tags: Achilles, Alexis Tsipras, archaeological discovery, Homer, Ithaca, Ithaki, Odysseus, Palace of Odysseus, Thanassis Papadopoulos, Trojan War, Troy

5200 BC House Discovered in Romania

2013-10-17 by Aleksandr Shatskih

House pre-Cucuteni

The house discovered at Baia is approximately 92 square meters, the largest ever found from the pre-Cucuteni culture.

Tags: archaeological discovery, Baia, pre-Cucuteni era, Pre-Cucuteni period, romania

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