Archaeologists have discovered a 2,500-year-old lost city in Greece, only a five-hour drive north of Athens.
Researchers from the University of Gothenburg and the University of Bournemouth have begun exploring the ruins at a village called Vlochos, around 300km (190 miles) north of Athens.
Some of the ruins themselves were already known, but have been dismissed as “part of an irrelevant settlement on a hill”, the leader of the team, Robin Ronnlund, announced in a statement.
He added that “a colleague and I came across the site in connection with another project last year, and we realised the great potential right away. The fact that nobody has ever explored the hill before is a mystery.”
Ronnlund underlined that the city appears to have flourished from the fourth to the third century BC before it was abandoned — possibly because of the Roman conquest of the area and noted:
“Very little is known about ancient cities in the region, and many researchers have previously believed that western Thessaly was somewhat of a backwater during Antiquity. Our project therefore fills an important gap in the knowledge about the area and shows that a lot remains to be discovered in the Greek soil.”
The team also includes researchers from the Ephorate of Antiquities of Karditsa while a second field project is planned for August next year.
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