Archaeologists have identify the ruins of alost cityatop a hill on the with child Thessalian plains of Greece , some 300 kilometers ( 190 miles ) Second Earl of Guilford of Athens . date back to around 2,500 years ago , the settlement is mostly bury underground , which is why researchers in the region had failed to distinguish it until now .
While explore the ruins of a Greenwich Village called Vlochós on the Strongilovoúni hill , researchers come across the corpse of pillar , walls , and city gate belong to an ancient town that had previously been consider little more than a backwater , mostly due to the fact that no other relics could be see on the earth .
Fortress walls , towers and city gates are clearly visible from the aviation . SIA / EFAK / YPPOA
Yet after taking a closer look , the team quick realized that they were standing on the site of a former metropolis .
“ ' We establish a town square and a street grid that point that we are dealing with quite a large city . The area inside the metropolis wall quantity over 40 hectares [ 99 acres ] , ” explained team leader Robin Rönnlund in astatement .
“ We also found ancient pottery and coins that can help to date the city . Our older chance are from around 500 BC , but the city seems to have flourished chiefly from the fourth to the third century BC before it was abandoned for some reason , peradventure in connector with the Roman conquest of the area . ”
sherd of red - figure pottery from the late sixth 100 BCE , plausibly by Attic Felis concolor Paseas . SIA / EFAK / YPPOA
Rather than jab up the surrounding turf for excavate the remains of the city , the researchers plan to useradarto consider the ulterior relics without stimulate any damage .
“ What used to be considered remains of some irrelevant settlement on a Alfred Hawthorne can now be upgraded to remains of a urban center of high significance than previously mean , ” said Rönnlund , add that “ the fact that nobody has never search the hill before is a mystery . ”
