Historical: Ancient Greek City of Tenea Discovered

The town of Tenea covered this whole section,” The archaeologist told me by showing me some dramatic hills in Peloponnese in Greece.

The lost city of Tenea, which was mentioned many times in Greek myths and historical texts, as well as in the ancient legend of Edipi, the mythical King of Tebes who accidentally killed his father and married his mother, was discovered by her and her team at the end of last October.

According to myth, the city was founded by the Trojans about 1100 BC. They had chosen that location because it was on the road between Corinth and the ancient settlement of Micah, writes the BBC, Periscopi.

Edith reportedly grew up in that city and then left as a child. So far no one knew where he was or why he was missing.

Tenean's search had begun in 1984. Corka had only five years of career when she accepted a call from some villagers who were searching a water canal. They had beaten an ancient sarcophagus and broke it in half. Corka had gone looking. When I saw it, I realized it was something unique,” she said.

However, it turned out that illegal antiquities smugglers had known about the country long ago, and they even paid local farmers for the hearths and coins they found.

In 2010, Korka had worked with police and informers to uncover illegal sales of the two statues. “Those statues indicated that Tena had been a city known with high-level art,” she said.

The archaeologist believes that the ancient inhabitants of Tenea had fled to the hills when that region was occupied by Slavs.

Tena's discovery has answered many mysteries already. One was where the city was located and why it had been abandoned. But other houses, temples, theaters and a Pazar known in ancient Greek as agora ʹ are now expected to be discovered in the years to come. /Periscope