An ancient lost city, a contemporary of the legendary Trojan War (1300-1200 BC), was discovered virtually intact by a mission of the Italian Archaeological School of Athens on the island of Lemnos, Northern Aegean, the Dardanelles in front of (just 40 miles separating the island from the site where Schliemann found Troy, Homer tells us that the Achaean warriors besiegers received the wine Lemnos and the island was also found a complicated vinification system of 7 century BC).
The discovery of the urban settlement of the Bronze Age in the area now called Hephaestus, was announced by the Director of the Italian Archaeological School of Athens, Greek Emanuele, in a conference side of the 20th international film festival archaeological organized by the Civic Museum in Rovereto. The mission he (the latest excavation was completed last summer) has unearthed the ancient settlement that was later covered by the settlements. The city was to be practiced metallurgy, as evidenced by the fact that even today is named after Hephaestus, the god who forged metals. The excavation of Greek I found forges and crucibles of 7 century BC
A Lemnos, in fact, Italian researchers dig for a long time, and with remarkable results: even in 1926 - said Greek - a mission led by the Director of the era of Italian Archaeological School of Athens, Alessandro Della Seta, had discovered in the locality Poliochni the oldest urban settlement in Europe. The deepest layer dates from the late Neolithic period, around 3200 BC, and the Italian excavations brought to light the walls, roads, sewers, a building designed to accommodate meetings of eighty people, and a house identified as that of a ruler. The urban area was recovered unchanged, in the state in which he had hurriedly left the inhabitants were terrified by a violent earthquake, one of the many earthquakes which have always disturbed the region, a kind of Pompeii in the Aegean. The excavation of Silk had highlighted 7:00 to 8:00 overlapping layers of built-up area, and traces of metals: the city produced and exported objects of copper, with metals from the mines of Anatolia. But Della Seta had come to find something else to Lemnos: etruscologists jew fascist and nationalist (and end miserably betrayed the racial laws of the fascist regime, says Greek), wanted to find evidence corroborating the exodus of the Etruscans from Anatolia, that Herodotus had stopped at Lemnos. This research Silk was encouraged by an inscription on the funerary stele of a warrior discovered in the mouth Kaminia: writing is Greek, while the language has strong similarities with the Etruscan. But the confirmation sought by Della Seta is not found, and the question remains open, despite the recent discovery of another similar inscription, in the same language, again at Lemnos: it was a shrine in the 6th century BC, to which the settlements had replaced after the construction of a theater. Today, as explained in Greek, archaeologists speculate that, if this is the Etruscan language, probably had come from Etruria, Etruscan, perhaps with the pirates: they write the chroniclers of the Athenian leader Miltiades Lemnos Tirreni tore the city and offered to his possession of the island.
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