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"This year we excavated part of the city itself," Dr Korka said.Įxcavation work continues on the cemeteries, located near the modern village of Chiliomodi about 100km southwest of Athens.Īrchaeologists discovered nine burials there this year. In one cemetery, antiquities smugglers dug up two remarkable 6th century BC marble statues of young men in 2010 and tried to sell them for 10 million euros. Lead archaeologist Elena Korka, who has been excavating in the area since 2013, said her team had only been digging in the rich cemeteries surrounding Tenea, and this year had commenced excavations on part of the city itself. That was unusual, as the ancient Greeks typically buried their dead in organised cemeteries outside the city walls.
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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.įinds 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 BC to late Roman times.Ī pottery jar containing the remains of two human foetuses was also found amid the foundations of one building.