Ancient Greece breakthrough: Lost city discovered solving 1600-year-old Trojan mystery

Experts found a range of valuable artefacts including ancient lamps, coins, jewellery, sculptures and even baths. The lost city of Tenea was discovered last year and since then experts have been working hard to unearth more of it.

The city also includes a network of houses which span around 670 metres with tombs full o gold and silver urns.

According to legend, the ancient city was built to house prisoners after the Trojan War.

However, the town then became affluent during Roman times.

The ancient artefacts found at the site supports claims that the Greek town was affluent at a time.

But the variety of unusual objects also adds to the mystery behind why the city was abandoned all those years ago.

After the town was abandoned in 400AD, Tenea was buried underground until archaeologists began excavations in 2013.

The city was not confirmed as the lost city of Tenea until five years after the first excavation as archaeologists wanted to be certain the city was definitely the lost ancient city.

Experts have also theorised as to why the city was abandoned.

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Oedipus is the story of the king of Thebes who killed his father so he could marry his mother.

Some scholars claim Oedipus was actually born in Tenea but this has not been proven.

Experts from several institutions will continue to excavate the site.

Smugglers dug up part of Tenea in 2010 and tried to sell two 6th Century BC marble statues for £8.6million.

In other news, archaeologists have discovered a secret Aztec tunnel world nestled below the busy streets of Mexico’s capital city.

The ancient water tunnel is thought to have been built by Emperor Montezuma I in the 15th century.

Inscriptions, carvings and paintings inside, as well as the tunnel itself, are thought to be linked to the Empire’s god of water and fertility, Tlaloc.

Announcing the discovery, the Mexican Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) revealed they had found the densely decorated tunnel in the city of Ecatepec de Morelos within the central state of Mexico.

Several carvings out of rock were found inside, as well as chunks of statue thought to have unbounded archaeological value.

According to local media, researchers found 11 carved images on the wall of the tunnel, which measured 27.5ft long, as well as the remains of a wooden gate.

source: express.co.uk